Uploaded January 2019 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago
Carl Miller is a pioneering technology researcher who has thrown himself into some of the most scary, hidden, weird and important parts of the digital age to understand how all of our lives are changing.
He is the co-founder and Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos the first UK think tank institute dedicated to studying the digital world and is a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London.
He’s the author of The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab
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Zeus and Cronus’ power battle
And you say that the new gods are out of their cage and we’re just beginning to fathom the world they are creating.
You start off exploring the nature of power
Machiavelli, Marx, Arendt, Foucault,
Defining power.
Power as influence
Business: Tech giants represent a centralized system—a small number of companies control the tech through which we interact with the world.
Power in business has mobed from owners of means of production towards owners of platforms that have become the means of mediation.
These giants have never stopped hacking
Data is increasingly driven capitalism
Monopolies are different today and haven’t been challenged
Carl Miller is a pioneering technology researcher who has thrown himself into some of the most scary, hidden, weird and important parts of the digital age to understand how all of our lives are changing.
He is the co-founder and Research Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos the first UK think tank institute dedicated to studying the digital world and is a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London.
He’s the author of The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab
carlmiller.co
Zeus and Cronus’ power battle
And you say that the new gods are out of their cage and we’re just beginning to fathom the world they are creating.
You start off exploring the nature of power
Machiavelli, Marx, Arendt, Foucault,
Defining power.
Power as influence
Business: Tech giants represent a centralized system—a small number of companies control the tech through which we interact with the world.
Power in business has mobed from owners of means of production towards owners of platforms that have become the means of mediation.
These giants have never stopped hacking
Data is increasingly driven capitalism
Monopolies are different today and haven’t been challenged
