31 March 2020

Niall Ferguson NETWORK PHENOMENA > What ideas spread, Why and How.

It starts off with the midnight ride of Paul Revere - and his network of Free Masons in Boston. As for "Hierarchies" and chain of top-down command control-of-power > Nah 

Niall Ferguson’s Networld: Episode 1 – “Disruption” | PBS

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Premiered Mar 17, 2020 
Official Website: https://to.pbs.org/2TVOyIW | #NetworldPBS With the help of experts in network theory and precedents from history, Ferguson argues that the printing press had similar consequences for 16th-and 17th-century Europe as the personal computer and the Internet have for the world since the 20th century, leading to polarization and the dissemination of fake news.


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Niall Ferguson’s Networld: Episode 2 

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Mar 17, 2020

Official Website: https://to.pbs.org/2TVOyIW | #NetworldPBS Looking at the history of the Victorian telegraph pioneers and rival computer networks. Host Niall Ferguson tells the story of how a decentralized, not-for-profit worldwide web shape-shifted to become a highly profitable network controlled by a tiny elite selling our attention for billions of dollars to the world’s advertisers.

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