The Quiet Before av Gal Beckerman

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<p><b>''<i>The Quiet Before</i></b><b> is a fascinating and important exploration of how ideas that change the world incubate and spread.</b>'' <b>Steven Pinker</b><br><br><b>''Filled with insightful analysis and colourful storytelling... </b><b>Rarely does a book give you a new way of looking at social change. This one does.'' Walter Isaacson</b><br><br>Why do some radical ideas make history?<br><br>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.<br><br><i>The Quiet Before</i> is a grand panorama, stretching from the seventeenth-century correspondence that jump-started the scientific revolution to the encrypted apps used by epidemiologists fig