A groundbreaking examination of the new centres of power and control in the twenty-first century
Carl Miller co-founded The Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos in 2012 and has been its Research Director ever since. He has researched and written widely on how technology is changing society, including for Wired, New Scientist, the Sunday Times, the Telegraph and the Guardian. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London.
A timely and incisive book that grapples with some of the most
significant issues of our time. There will be countless volumes on
"disruption" and "innovation" published this year, but Miller cuts
through the noise and examines how the ascendancy of technology is
fundamentally shifting economic models and the effect that this is
having on society and individuals.
*Wired*
The best sort of tech book: extensive field work, accessible, and
ultimately about people rather than computers. The Death of the
Gods uncovers the fascinating and often hidden characters that are
changing the world. Essential reading if you want to know why the
old rules don’t apply any more – and what might come next.
*Jamie Bartlett, author of The People Versus Tech*
There are plenty of books on the market exploring the the insidious
impact of technology platforms on democracies, but Carl’s is one of
the most gripping. He takes you on a journey through Silicon
Valley’s rise to power, during which you meet hackers,
cybercriminals, fake news factory owners, activists and psyops
agents. It’s thrilling and terrifying in equal measure.
*Olivia Solon*
A whirlwind ride through huge forces shaping and disrupting the
world. Miller encounters new elites and grassroots movements, state
actors and companies as big as countries, nerds and visionaries,
bad men and some pretty amazing women. Prepare to be terrified,
exhilarated and occasionally inspired.
*Catherine Mayer, author and co-founder of the Women's Equality
Party*
A highly readable and at times disturbing account of how in the
digital age power over aspects of our everyday lives has shifted
from long established to new and untried sources. Carl Miller
deftly guides us through the darker recesses of the modern world to
meet some of the new global demi-gods that now influence our lives
in ways we need urgently to understand.
*Professor Sir David Omand, former Director of GCHQ*
A magisterial guide to the impact of the digital revolution on our
institutions and our lives. Profound, yet packed with intriguing
interviews and vignettes, this is a tour de force.
*Anthony Giddens, Emeritus Professor at the Department of
Sociology, LSE*
Digital technologies are uprooting many long-held assumptions about
how the world works, from politics and business to media and crime,
forcing us to think again about the sources of power and the new
ways it is being used. Carl Miller is the ideal guide to this
strange new world.
*Andrew Gamble, author of Between Europe and America and The
Spectre at the Feast*
Enthralling. Alarming. And the essential guide to the power map of
the twenty-first century.
*Liam Byrne MP*
A series of horror stories that will pretty much convince you that
your worst nightmares about the internet are well-founded. Here
Miller's expertise is at its most effective... As Miller points
out, the cascades of counter-narratives issued by Putin's
cyber-goons are not meant to be believed, they are meant to destroy
belief. Of course we are lying, is the real message, but everybody
does. This is warfare and we need to recognise that.
*Sunday Times*
Highly readable... striking. Miller’s aim is not a new theory of
power... the value of the book is in how its insights might trouble
such theories and extend our understanding of the emerging
intricacies. The question this poses is how theories of power might
cope with the verve and dynamism of the shifting power base that
Miller’s book deftly illuminates.
*Catholic Herald*
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