The Gatekeepers Podcast
1) 5. The Vortex
One of the strange things about our new media universe, is how innocuous decisions taken in Silicon Valley - turning a dial, or adding a few lines of code to increase engagement - can change your life...Show More
2) 4. Flood the Zone
2016 is a big election year. But something is going very wrong online. Journalists in America and the Philippines start to notice something strange going on online. In Manila, Maria Ressa - the edito...Show More
3) 3. Are You Not Engaged?
The tech pioneers were right: all this connectivity and sharing is creating a new age of freedom and democracy. A global consciousness. Arab Spring, Barack Obama â both fuelled by social media - make ...Show More
4) 2. Blitzscaling
From the rubble of the dot com crash, an ambitious young Harvard student with a passion for hacking and love of Roman emperors, sets up an exciting new website. Mark Zuckerbergâs Facebook is an instan...Show More
5) 1. We Are as Gods
For years something strange has been happening online, but most of us have no idea whatâs really going on. Ethnic conflict in Myanmar. A chemistry professor is killed in Ethiopia. A teenager dies in h...Show More
6) Introducing The Gatekeepers
It all started with a crazy idea to realise a hippie dream of building a âglobal consciousnessâ. The plan was to build a connected world, where everyone could access everyone and everything all the ti...Show More