Context with Brad Harris | 7 February 2018 | 0h 39m | Listen Later  | iTunes
Distils the ideas in The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power by Niall Ferguson. Through groundbreaking research, Ferguson reveals how social networks, from the Freemasons of the middle ages to Facebook in the 21st century, disrupt established hierarchies to divert the course of history, both for better and for worse. Draws lessons from history to apply to modern network disruptors.