The Netocracts: Futurica Trilogy 1

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Stockholm Text, Feb 24, 2012 - Business & Economics - 205 pages
History is always written from the perspective of the ruling or rising elite at the time of writing. Concepts like The Stone Age, The Bronze Age, etc. were of course unknown during the stone age and the bronze age. They were invented in the 1800s to make sense of a development that seemed to reach its climax with industrialisation...
 

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Introduction
Feudalism capitalism and informationalism
Plurarchal society the death of etatism and the crisis
Information propaganda and entertainment
Curators nexialists and eternalists The netocrats and their
Globalisation the death of mass media and the growth of
The new biology and netocratic ethics
The convulsions of collectivity the death of man and
Network pyramids attentionalistic power hierarchies
Sex and tribalism virtual education and the inequality of
Behind the firewalls netocratic civil war and virtual
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Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist are Swedish philosophers and authors of the internationally successful Futurica Trilogy. They lecture the world over about the current global internet revolution. Bard & Söderqvist are regarded as pioneers in the literary genre futurica, where philosophy, social theory and futurology merge.After joining forces in the late 1990’s, Bard & Söderqvist argued that the interactive revolution is the most profound and radical of all technological revolutions in history, that it completely transforms society, politics, the economy and the culture, social power structures, the collective world view and the whole concept of being human. They demonstrated the effects of digital dynamics on various levels of a globalized world.They not only made controversial predictions in the early years of the new millennium (and cleverly foresaw both the dot.com crash and September 11), they have since then been proven right in virtually every aspect and even in the most minute of detals. Not only did Bard & Söderqvist foresee revolutionary innovations such as Google, Facebook, Al-Qaida and Wikileaks; they also went deeper and looked into the very power struggle of the on-going revolution itself.

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