Don’t burn anyone at the stake today

(and other lessons from history about living through an information crisis)

Gebonden Engels 2025 1e druk 9780241777633
Nog niet verschenen, verwacht op 13‑11‑2025
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An electrifying, thought-provoking exploration of how the digital era is reshaping our world, by bestselling, Women's Prize-winning writer Naomi AldermanFrom the award-winning, bestselling author of The PowerWhat’s the most useful thing you could know about your own life?

In this era-defining book, developed from her ground-breaking Radio 4 essay series, Naomi Alderman turns her boundless curiosity and incisive thinking to a question that affects us all – how do we understand, and navigate, the epoch we’re living through? She calls this epoch the Information Crisis. The internet has flooded us with more knowledge, opinions, ideas, opportunities, as well as verbal attacks and misinformation than ever before. It lets us learn more quickly and also spread falsehood more quickly, it brings us together and also divides us in new ways, it is now the lens through which we perceive and understand the world.

There is no going back. But we have been here before. In fact, this is humanity's third information crisis.

The first, the invention of writing 5,000 years ago and the second, the invention of the printing press, 600 years ago, drastically reshaped our perceptions, interactions and mental landscapes in ways that feel acutely familiar. Overwhelmed by information, people become afraid and angry, unsettled and distressed as well as more knowledgeable, educated and curious. By looking at those previous information crises, both the turmoil and the advances, Alderman asks what we can learn from the past to better understand, and navigate, our present and our future.

Drawing on the work of philosophers and historians, Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today explores how new technology opens up new ways of being and helps us chart a way forward (once again), through the turbulent seas of information overload.

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ISBN13:9780241777633
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Aantal pagina's:224
Uitgever:Penguin Books
Druk:1
Verschijningsdatum:13-11-2025

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