{"product_id":"data-empire-the-power-of-information-to-organize-control-and-dominate-9780063430327","title":"Data Empire: The Power of Information to Organize, Control, and Dominate","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom clay tablets to the algorithmic state, a\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e groundbreaking new lens on human history arguing that information has always been the seed of power, for readers of \u003ci\u003eNexus \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Age of Surveillance Capitalism.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong before writing existed, at the dawn of civilization in Mesopotamia, rulers pressed marks into clay to keep track of land, people and grain. To rule, they had to keep count. It is no accident, then, that the first written name in human history was neither a god nor a king, but an accountant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs ships and navigation expanded our horizons, a new age of European empires took control of more than 80 percent of the world's surface using censuses, maps and ledgers to decide who belonged, who owed, and who could be sacrificed. Today, we live in the third great era, when trading our information for access can feel harmless or inevitable - yet from targeted advertising to border policing and mass surveillance, data shapes the course of our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith our earliest tools like ancient cave markings and knotted strings, to colonial record-keeping and the algorithmic state, \u003ci\u003eData Empire\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how data has always been the seed of power: a technology of control that has shaped civilizations and upheld empires. Empire was never just about weapons or ships. It was built on collecting information on us, to rule us. Both a sweeping history and a sharp critique, \u003ci\u003eData Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is a call to recognize the power data holds--and to imagine what resistance looks like in an age defined by it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063430327\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480","brand":"Roopika Risam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52537482739893,"sku":"9780063430327","price":29.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_0403f46d-9023-40f5-8b00-f6f6480d1ee4.jpg?v=1779169754","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/data-empire-the-power-of-information-to-organize-control-and-dominate-9780063430327","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}