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The Square and the Tower
Niall Ferguson ISBN 9780735222915
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Niall Ferguson ISBN 9780735222915
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This book by Niall Ferguson has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. The people who brought it up: Tim Ferriss, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2021-11-08 and the most recent from 2022-11-16. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
A "recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a struggle between old power hierarchies and new social networks"--Dust jacket.
“His 2018 book, The Square and the Tower, was a New York Times bestseller and also adapted for television by PBS as Niall Ferguson's Networld”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Niall Ferguson: Historian, Hoover Institution senior fellow, author of 16 books (including Kissinger, Civilization, and Doom), and founder of advisory firm Greenmantle. Historian Niall Ferguson argues we've already entered Cold War II with China, with Taiwan as the new Cuba-style flashpoint.
“in a book called the square in the tower i argued that it would be very costly for the united states to allow the public sphere to continue to be dominated by a handful of big tech companies”— guest
The guest here is Niall Ferguson: Scottish-American historian and author of 16 books on money, power, war, and empire; formerly at Harvard, now at Stanford's Hoover Institution and a co-founder of the University of Austin. Historian Niall Ferguson on launching a free-speech university, the evolution of money and crypto, counterfactual world wars, COVID leadership, and the meaning of life.
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