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THE QUIET BEFORE - GAL BECKERMAN KARTONIERT (TB)

'The Quiet Before is a fascinating and important exploration of how ideas that change the world
incubate and spread.' Steven Pinker 'Filled with insightful analysis and colourful
storytelling... Rarely does a book give you a new way of looking at social change. This one
does.' Walter Isaacson Why do some radical ideas make history? We tend to think of revolutions
as loud: frustrations and demands shouted in the streets. But the ideas fuelling them have
traditionally been conceived in much quieter spaces  in the small  secluded corners where a
vanguard can imagine alternate realities. This extraordinary book is a search for those spaces
over centuries and across continents  and a warning that they might soon go extinct. The Quiet
Before is a grand panorama  stretching from the seventeenth-century correspondence that
jump-started the scientific revolution to the encrypted apps used by epidemiologists fighting
the pandemic in the shadow of an inept administration. Beckerman shows that defining social
movements - from decolonization to feminism - thrive when they are given the time and space to
gestate. Today  we are replacing these productive  private spaces with monolithic platforms.
Why did the Arab Spring fall apart and Occupy Wall Street never gain traction? Has Black Lives
Matter lived up to its full potential? Beckerman reveals what this new social media ecosystem
still needs - from patience to focus - and offers a recipe for growing radical ideas again.
Lyrical and profound  The Quiet Before looks to the past to help us imagine a different future.

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