The Third Information Crisis by Naomi Alderman 

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Naomi Alderman considers the way that the internet and digital communication have changed our world, offering us huge amounts of information, very fast.

Naomi reflects on the speed and scale of the internet; the sense of community and equality  it can create but also the current dangers of misinformation,  group-think, and ultimately, the threat to truth.  The  psychological effects on individuals are profound:  ‘it’s not stupid to be anxious or to feel that truth is under attack’ argues Naomi ‘We’re learning that truth is extremely complex. It’s hard to bear’.

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Naomi Alderman argues we are living through the third great information crisis.

After writing and printing, Naomi Alderman argues that digital communication has brought about the third great information crisis.

In this wide-ranging series, award-winning novelist Naomi Alderman, author of The Power and The Future, argues we are living through the third great information crisis. Following the invention of writing, and then printing, we now have digital communications technology. In what she describes as a 'speculative historical project', Naomi traces the parallels between these moments, asking if we can learn from the past to help us cope with the 'enormous wave of information'  from the internet and social media that we are all faced with today. Drawing on the work of philosophers and historians, she explores the way new technologies open up new ways of thinking and their enormous impact on our society.

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