Nuova Era Oscura

Italian edition ONLY The Internet, networking and digital technologies were supposed to enlighten the world: instead, they have plunged it into a dark pit where conspiracy theories, mass surveillance, crisis of thought and environmental catastrophe are proliferating. But how was it possible for tools with such great potential to have finally led us to the threshold of a new dark age, a veritable digital Dark Ages dominated by increasingly ragged inequalities and poor understanding of the world around us? From the fake news of politics to the flash crashes of finance, from the failures of science to the disturbing children's videos produced by YouTube algorithms, James Bridle guides us through the nightmares of a present where the worst is yet to come, to help us understand that only by getting rid of the dogmas of the past can we hope for a future of justice and sharing.