Niall Ferguson on the Age of Networking

Name: Niall Ferguson on the Age of Networking
Uploaded: 2018-03-20
Description: Niall Ferguson returns to TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paiken to discuss his new book "The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, From the Freemasons to Facebook." Ferguson explains the significance of social networks and how they have challenged the power of hierarchical institutions throughout history. He also discusses the outsized role companies such as Facebook have had on our lives.

Niall Ferguson · 2018-03-20

A book-focused interview on how networks reshape authority from historical secret societies to modern platforms.

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