Niall Ferguson’s Networld

By looking at lessons from Cold War history, George Orwell's 1984 and other sources, host Niall Ferguson tells the story of how a not-for-profit worldwide web shifted to become a highly profitable network controlled by a tiny elite.

With lessons from the fight against terrorism in Iraq to the rise of an internet-powered surveillance state in China, host Niall Ferguson shows how our democracies are under threat from forces that exploit the social networks we invented.