''Exactly the book you need right now' Stylist
'You know how the best writers pinpoint something you've felt for ages but haven't been able to articulate? This is like that. It's so good. She should give Radio 4's next Reith Lectures' Guardian
An electrifying, thought-provoking exploration of how the digital era is reshaping our world, by bestselling, Women's Prize-winning writer Naomi Alderman
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Power
What's the most useful thing you could know about your own life?
In this era-defining book, developed from her groundbreaking Radio 4 essay series, Naomi Alderman turns to a question that affects us all: how do we understand, and navigate, the epoch we're living through?
The internet has flooded us with more knowledge, opinions, ideas, opportunities, as well as verbal attacks and misinformation, than ever before. It lets us learn more quickly and also spread falsehood more quickly, it brings us together and also divides us in countless new ways. There is no going back. But we have been here before. In fact, this is humanity's third information crisis.
The first, the invention of writing 5,000 years ago, and the second, the invention of the printing press 600 years ago, drastically reshaped our perceptions, interactions and mental landscapes in ways that feel acutely familiar. Overwhelmed by information, people become afraid and angry, unsettled and distressed, as well as more knowledgeable, educated and curious.
By looking at those previous information crises, both the turmoil and the advances, Alderman asks what we can learn from the past to better understand our present, and how this might help us chart a way forward (once again), through the turbulent seas of information overload.
'Alderman is one of our most surprising and delightful public intellectuals, and this book grapples wonderfully with our current schisms and their historical precedents' JON RONSON
| ISBN: | 9781405981392 |
| Publication date: | 7th May 2026 |
| Author: | Naomi Alderman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Primary Genre | Popular Science |
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''Exactly the book you need right now' Stylist
'You know how the best writers pinpoint something you've felt for ages but haven't been able to articulate? This is like that. It's so good. She should give Radio 4's next Reith Lectures' Guardian
An electrifying, thought-provoking exploration of how the digital era is reshaping our world, by bestselling, Women's Prize-winning writer Naomi Alderman
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Power
What's the most useful thing you could know about your own life?
In this era-defining book, developed from her groundbreaking Radio 4 essay series, Naomi Alderman turns to a question that affects us all: how do we understand, and navigate, the epoch we're living through?
The internet has flooded us with more knowledge, opinions, ideas, opportunities, as well as verbal attacks and misinformation, than ever before. It lets us learn more quickly and also spread falsehood more quickly, it brings us together and also divides us in countless new ways. There is no going back. But we have been here before. In fact, this is humanity's third information crisis.
The first, the invention of writing 5,000 years ago, and the second, the invention of the printing press 600 years ago, drastically reshaped our perceptions, interactions and mental landscapes in ways that feel acutely familiar. Overwhelmed by information, people become afraid and angry, unsettled and distressed, as well as more knowledgeable, educated and curious.
By looking at those previous information crises, both the turmoil and the advances, Alderman asks what we can learn from the past to better understand our present, and how this might help us chart a way forward (once again), through the turbulent seas of information overload.
'Alderman is one of our most surprising and delightful public intellectuals, and this book grapples wonderfully with our current schisms and their historical precedents' JON RONSON
Don't Burn Anyone at the Stake Today features in the following genres: Non-Fiction Books of the Month, Biographies & Autobiographies, Popular Science, Media studies, Ethical issues: scientific, technological and medical developments, Conspiracy theories, Information technology industries, Social and cultural history, Impact of science and technology on society, Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects, Artificial intelligence
Don't Burn Anyone at the Stake Today is available in Paperback, Hardback
Don't Burn Anyone at the Stake Today was written by Naomi Alderman and published by Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Don't Burn Anyone at the Stake Today has 224 pages
£10.79
