Networks Rising

Chapter 1: Discovering FirePierre Teilhard de Chardin • A New Species • A Bold Vision Chapter 2: Talking with MachinesGrace Hopper • Douglas Engelbart • The Augmentation Project • The Unfinished RevolutionChapter 3: The Deep NetworkThe Network Comes to Life • Social Technology • Surveillance Chapter 4: Freedom and Social OrderImmanuel Kant • Voltaire and Rousseau • The Social Contract • IntermentChapter 5: Souls of GoldÉmile Durkheim • A Conscious Collective • A Sacrifice is Called For • H. G. Wells • War of the Worlds. Chapter 6: Breaking FreeFriedrich Nietzsche • Jean-Paul SartreChapter 7: Thinking TogetherEleanor Roosevelt • A Bright Beginning • Groups Make Better Decisions • A New Balance. Chapter 8: A Flatter WorldThe Fall of the UN • The Rise of NGOsChapter 9: Science DreamsTheodore Sturgeon • Isaac Asimov • Gene Roddenberry • George Lucas • Arthur C. Clarke • William Gibson • A Future WorldChapter 10: The Age of AquariusMarilyn Ferguson • High Above the Center RingChapter 11: Truth is LocalJimmy Wales • Three Big Ideas • Rules for a Flatter World. • The Bigger PictureChapter 12: Big BrotherThought Control • Eric Blair • Big Brother Lies • The Spectacle • 2084Chapter 13. Smoke and MirrorsFake Friends • Communications of the First and Second Kind • The Loneliness Machine • Faking It. Chapter 14. the Three Stooges ModelThinking Together • The Public Sphere • Network Truth • Virtual TruthChapter 15. InsurrectionThe Social Contract has Expired • Wael Ghonim • The Children’s Crusade • “Frankly we did win this election”Chapter 16. The Network RisingWe Are Connected • The World’s First Selfie • A Second Transformation