The Information Animal: Humans, Technology and the Competition for Reality

Depending on the news you read, new tools like AI will either save or destroy us. But our response to emerging technology's 'unprecedented' threats actually follows a pattern as old as civilisation. From ancient Athens to COVID-19, social media to spam, Alicia Wanless shows how humans have always consumed information, whether accurate or not. First a new technology changes how information is shared, broadening its availability and accelerating how fast it travels. Then, as more people engag...