The System of the World — How Science, Money, and Power Became One System
What if the scientific revolution was also a revolution in money, machinery, information, and political power?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The System of the World by Neal Stephenson as its lens, this investigation explores the emerging institutional order of early eighteenth-century England. Daniel Waterhouse returns from the American colonies to find scientific rivalry, monetary instability, technological invention, religious conflict, and political succession converging inside one increasingly interconnected system.
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