Niall Ferguson: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Are we truly living in the first 'Networked Aged'? Niall Ferguson in his book the Square and the Tower argues that social networks are not new but actually have been fundamental in shaping history. From the printers and preachers who made the Reformation to the Freemasons who led the American Revolution, it was the networkers who disrupted the old order of popes and kings. Traditional relations between hierarchies and networks have empathized security and growth, yet Ferguson points out that these relationships are much more nuanced than we typically give them credit.
Far from being unique, our era is the Second Networked Age, with the computer in the role of the printing press. Once we understand this, both the past and the future, start to look very different. Historians have traditionally ignored the power of the social networks in favor of hierarchies as they examine the rise and fall of power throughout history. With over 2 billion Facebook users, one has to wonder what lessons can be learned by examining social networks of the past? How can ‘new’ networks create social change, impact businesses, and influence policy? What outcomes can we expect and what are some of the complications with electronic networks?
Niall Ferguson is a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford, and the Center for European Studies, Harvard. He has published fourteen books, the latest of which is The Square and the Tower. We are thrilled to have him join us.
SPEAKER:
Niall Ferguson
Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution
MODERATOR:
Markos Kounalakis
Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution
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Niall Ferguson is great. He has a great talent for explaining complicated matters and history. Awesome interview!!
Ten comments for the best academic writer of his generation. Interesting.
He didn´t see the yellow vests coming though...
and the gang stalking?
The religious war from the catholic south with the north was in the 15th century, not in the16th as he claims. So was the (micro) hunt after witches. Nithing to do with Luther. Funny, a historian mixing up causes effects and ages :-)
That's absolutely false numpty! The wars of religion happened in France in the 16th century, so the war against the League of Smalkald in the Holy Roman Empire, the rebellion of The Netherlands against Spain, the breakup of England with Rome and the ascent of Calvinists over Queen Elisabeth after the Queen Mary's period of prosecution against Protestants, the regime of Jean Calvin in Geneva, etc., etc., all of it in the 16th century, as from the start Luther stuck his 95 theses at the All Saints' Church of Wittenberg's door in 1517!!!
@@SertoriusMagnus So there! excellent retort our friend!
What a difference nine months makes....the EU appears to be falling apart.
He's not quite the economic genius he thinks he is. Interesting comment on US vs China tech competition, though he fails to mention that it is Trump who is shaking the US out of its complacency about China.
What a difference another year makes, when the EU isn't falling apart at all and claims that it was look like hysterical nonsense