Roopika Risam
Praise for Data Empire
From the earliest inscriptions, through the record-keeping of the Han dynasty or the Domesday book, to the modern world of the internet and AI, Risam demonstrates how data has both controlled and liberated us and ...
Professor Lewis Dartnell, author of Being Human
Here is the new history of mankind demanded by our times. We can understand our past, going all the way back to our emergence as a species, as a struggle over data. Data used to turn into power through interm ...
Jaron Lanier, computer scientist, founder of Virtual Reality and author of Who Owns the Future?
A powerful and thought-provoking deep history of data and power, essential reading for understanding the opportunities and dangers of the technological revolution now transforming our world.
Dr Jonathan Kennedy, author of Pathogenesis
From the earliest inscriptions, through the record-keeping of the Han dynasty or the Domesday book, to the modern world of the internet and AI, Risam demonstrates how data has both controlled and liberated us and ...
Professor Lewis Dartnell, author of Being Human
Here is the new history of mankind demanded by our times. We can understand our past, going all the way back to our emergence as a species, as a struggle over data. Data used to turn into power through interm ...
Jaron Lanier, computer scientist, founder of Virtual Reality and author of Who Owns the Future?
A powerful and thought-provoking deep history of data and power, essential reading for understanding the opportunities and dangers of the technological revolution now transforming our world.
Dr Jonathan Kennedy, author of Pathogenesis
From the earliest inscriptions, through the record-keeping of the Han dynasty or the Domesday book, to the modern world of the internet and AI, Risam demonstrates how data has both controlled and liberated us and ...
Professor Lewis Dartnell, author of Being Human
Here is the new history of mankind demanded by our times. We can understand our past, going all the way back to our emergence as a species, as a struggle over data. Data used to turn into power through interm ...
Jaron Lanier, computer scientist, founder of Virtual Reality and author of Who Owns the Future?
A powerful and thought-provoking deep history of data and power, essential reading for understanding the opportunities and dangers of the technological revolution now transforming our world.
Dr Jonathan Kennedy, author of Pathogenesis