Don t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today

Resumen del libro

What's the most useful thing you could know about your own life?In this era-defining book, developed from her groundbreaking 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 our present, and prepare for 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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Namomi Aldermanx{0026}lt;/B fue amadrinada por Margaret Atwood dentro del Programa Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiatie. Su primera novela, x{0026}lt;I Disobediencex{0026}lt;/I , ha sido traducida a diez idiomas y fue granadora del premio Orange.x{0026}lt;/P x{0026}lt;P En 2007, Alderman fue destacada por el x{0026}lt;I Sunday Timesx{0026}lt;/I como la mejor escritorajoven del año, y uno de los 25 escritores para el futuro de la librería Waterstones. Presenta el programa x{0026}lt;I Science Storiesx{0026}lt;/I en la BBC Radio 4 y es profesora de escritura creativa en la Universidad de Bath. Es periodista en x{0026}lt;I The Observerx{0026}lt;/I , donde tiene una columba sobre tecnología y juegos. También es la cocreadora y escritora del videojuego x{0026}lt;I Zombies, run!x{0026}lt;/I En la actualidad vive en Londres.x{0026}lt;/P