Jonathan Paul Marshall, James Goodman, Didar Zowghi, and Francesca Da Rimini. Disorder and the Disinformation Society: The Social Dynamics of Information Networks and Software. Routledge, London, 2015. 302 pp.

• Main Author: Pertierra, Raul
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2017
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/socialtransformations/vol5/iss2/5; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/socialtransformations/article/1129/viewcontent/ST_205.2_205_20Book_20review_20__20Pertierra.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Excerpt: According to Bruno Latour (2014) we are now in the age of Anthropocene, where human activity is the main shaper of the physical and social environment. As to when this age started is difficult to ascertain – it may have begun 500,000 years ago when fire was first employed or 10,000 years ago when cultivation and animal husbandry was practiced. Some anthropologists date this age to the first water pump (1710) at the start of the industrial revolution. In any case, it now seems clear that human activity is the main determinant of our physical and social world. A consequence of this fact is the increasing unpredictability of the future as human intervention becomes a major factor in shaping such a future.