Jamie Bartlett

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About Jamie Bartlett

My chief interest is the relationship between technology, politics and society - and my aim is to make writing on tech accessible to a general public. I find too many books on the subject are dry, technical and lack human characters. I especially like to find subcultures - the fringe groups and ideas most people dismiss as crazy - because they are very often useful guides to the future. This is the approach I took in my first book 'The Dark Net', which looked at hidden internet subcultures, based on months immersed in these groups.

I write frequently on these questions for several outlets, and do occasional television work - including a two part BBC 2 series about disruption, called 'The Secrets of Silicon Valley'.

You can find most of my recent stuff via my Twitter handle, @jamiejbartlett - and do get in touch with me there, as I always try to respond!

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The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld Jun 2, 2015

by Jamie Bartlett

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An NPR Best Book of the Year
Included in The Washington Post's Notable Nonfiction of the Year
An Independent and New Statesman Book of the Year

Beyond the familiar online world that most of us inhabit—a world of Google, Facebook, and Twitter—lies a vast and often hidden network of sites, communities, and cultures where freedom is pushed to its limits, and where people can be anyone, or do anything, they want. This is the world of Bitcoin, 4chan, and Silk Road, of radicalism, crime, and pornography. This is the Dark Net.

In this important and revealing book, Jamie Bartlett takes us deep into the digital underworld and presents an extraordinary look at the internet we don't know. Beginning with the rise of the internet and the conflicts and battles that defined its early years, Bartlett reports on trolls, pornographers, drug dealers, hackers, political extremists, Bitcoin programmers, and vigilantes—and puts a human face on those who have many reasons to stay anonymous.

Rich with historical research and revelatory reporting, The Dark Net is an unprecedented, eye-opening look at a world that doesn't want to be known.

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The People Vs Tech: How the Internet Is Killing Democracy (and How We Save It) Apr 5, 2018

by Jamie Bartlett

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From the bestselling author of The Dark Net comes a book that explains all the dangers of the digital revolution and offers concrete solutions on how we can protect our personal privacy, and democracy itself.

The internet was meant to set us free. But have we unwittingly handed too much away to shadowy powers behind a wall of code, all manipulated by a handful of Silicon Valley utopians, ad men, and venture capitalists? And, in light of recent data breach scandals around companies like Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, what does that mean for democracy, our delicately balanced system of government that was created long before big data, total information, and artificial intelligence? In this urgent polemic, Jamie Bartlett argues that through our unquestioning embrace of big tech, the building blocks of democracy are slowly being removed. The middle class is being eroded, sovereign authority and civil society is weakened, and we citizens are losing our critical faculties, maybe even our free will.

The People Vs Tech is an enthralling account of how our fragile political system is being threatened by the digital revolution. Bartlett explains that by upholding six key pillars of democracy, we can save it before it is too late. We need to become active citizens, uphold a shared democratic culture, protect free elections, promote equality, safeguard competitive and civic freedoms, and trust in a sovereign authority. This essential book shows that the stakes couldn't be higher and that, unless we radically alter our course, democracy will join feudalism, supreme monarchies and communism as just another political experiment that quietly disappeared.

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Radicals Chasing Utopia: Inside the Rogue Movements Trying to Change the World Jun 13, 2017

by Jamie Bartlett

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"It's the hubris of every generation to think that they have arrived at the best way of living. But all the things we now take for granted, all the modern wisdoms we hold to be self-evident, were once derided as dangerous or foolish radical thinking." -- From the Prologue

In Radicals Chasing Utopia, Jamie Bartlett, one of the world's leading thinkers on radical politics and technology, takes readers inside the strange and exciting worlds of the innovators, disrupters, idealists, and extremists who think we can do better-and believe they know how. Bartlett introduces us to some of the most influential movements today: techno-futurists questing for immortality, far-right groups seeking to close borders, militant environmentalists striving to save the planet by any means necessary, and psychedelic pioneers attempting to heal society with the help of powerful hallucinogens.

The success of democratic societies hinges on our ability to listen to-and in some cases learn from-the radical movements in our midst. Their methods may be extreme, but in chasing utopia, these groups are challenging what is possible and previewing the world to come.

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Radicals: Wie Außenseiter die Welt verändern wollen und weshalb wir ihnen zuhören sollten (German Edition) Apr 19, 2018

by Jamie Bartlett , Matthias Schulz

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In "Radicals" nimmt Jamie Bartlett, einer der weltweit führenden Denker zu radikaler Politik und Technologie, die Leser mit in die fremdartigen und aufregenden Welten der Innovatoren, Disruptoren, Idealisten und Extremisten, die der Auffassung sind, dass im Kern der modernen Gesellschaft etwas falsch ist – und glauben, dass wir es besser können. Bartlett stellt einige der wichtigsten Bewegungen unserer Zeit vor: Techno-Futuristen, die Unsterblichkeit anstreben; extrem rechte Gruppen, die Grenzen schließen wollen; militante Umweltaktivisten, die den Planeten mit allen notwendigen Mitteln retten wollen; psychedelische Pioniere, die die Gesellschaft mithilfe starker Halluzinogene heilen wollen.
Der Erfolg demokratischer Gesellschaften hängt von unserer Fähigkeit ab, den radikalen Bewegungen in unserer Mitte zuzuhören – und in manchen Fällen von ihnen zu lernen. Ihre Ansichten mögen extrem sein, aber in der Verfolgung ihrer Utopien stellen diese Gruppen infrage, was möglich ist, und nehmen die künftige Welt vorweg.

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The Dark Net: Unterwegs in den dunklen Kanälen der digitalen Unterwelt (German Edition) Sep 2, 2015

by Jamie Bartlett , Frank Sievers

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Das 'Dark Net' ist eine Unterwelt. Es besteht aus den geheimsten und verschwiegensten Ecken des verschlüsselten Webs. Ab und zu gerät ein Teil dieser Unterwelt in die Schlagzeilen, beispielsweise wenn eine Plattform für Online-Drogenhandel zerschlagen wird. Abgesehen davon wissen wir jedoch so gut wie nichts darüber. Bis heute. Basierend auf umfangreichen Recherchen, exklusiven Interviews und schockierendem, authentischem Material zeigt Jamie Bartlett, wie sich völlige Anonymität auf Menschen auswirken kann, und porträtiert faszinierende, abstoßende oder auch gefährliche Subkulturen, darunter Trolle und Pädophile, Dealer und Hacker, Extremisten, Bitcoin-Programmierer und Bürgerwehren.

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