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The Revolt of the Public
September 13, 2024
“All over the world, elite institutions from governments to media to academia are losing their authority and monopoly control of information to dynamic amateurs and the broader public. This book, until now only in samizdat (and Kindle) form, has been my No. 1 handout for the last several years to anyone seeking to understand this unfolding shift in power from hierarchies to networks in the age of the internet.”
—Marc Andreessen, cofounder, Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz
“We are in an open war between publics with passionate and untutored interests and elites who believe they have the right to guide those publics. Gurri asks the essential question: Can liberal representative democracy survive the rise of the public?”
—Roger Berkowitz, founder and academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center, professor of politics and human rights at Bard College
The above quotes refer to a powerful must-read book by Martin Gurri called The Revolt of the Public. No less than Marc Andreessen made this his number-one book suggestion. If you recognize the name, and how important he is to technology, you will understand the significance. What he thinks matters.
Full disclosure—to my personal embarrassment, I was vaguely aware of Gurri’s book but didn’t look at it until a few months ago. As readers know, I have been writing about cycles in the coming crisis for well over a year. I am literally crashing through the final edits of a book on the topic. In the final stages you have to block out...
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