David Beer on the new class who have hacked the media
The Death of the Gods
by Carl Miller, Heinemann, 400pp, £20
It’s tempting to think of power as something that doesn’t really change, that the world might alter but dominance, exploitation and control remain the same. Yet, as with the unsettling economic torrents of the past decade, recent social, technological and political upheavals are denting many of our established ideas about how the world works. With a transforming and complex backdrop of tech giants, cybercrime, algorithms, social media, cryptocurrencies and the like,
the mutation of power seems likely to be difficult to grasp.
