Neil Curry: I think Putin has a whole bunch of problems problem one is what looked like a brilliant psychological warfare operation the meddling in the u.s. election is backfired massively on him so that relations between the u.S. and Russia are at an all-time post-Cold War low Lindsey Graham remarked that it took some real genius to unite republicans and democrats in congress over tightening sanctions on Russia. The Russian networks basically outside of Russia subsist for nefarious activities so if you get booted off the west coast the silicon valley networks then you end up going to the Russian networks to do whatever skullduggery you have in mind but here's the trouble in the in the world
Niall Ferguson is the preeminent historian of the ideas that define our time. He has challenged how we think about money, power, civilisation and empires. Now he wants to reimagine history itself. Networks, he explains, are the key to history. The greatest innovators have been ‘superhubs’ of connections. The most powerful states, empires and companies have been those with the most densely networked structures. And the most transformative ideas – from the printing presses that launched the Reformation to the Freemasonry that inspired the American Revolution – have gone viral precisely because of the networks within which they spread. Our host for this conversation is historian, author and broadcaster, Rana Mitter. The audio of this live Intelligence Squared event was recorded in London in 2017.
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