A review by jcarter
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media by Brooke Gladstone

5.0

Outstanding. I knew that the answer to my questions about the media couldn't be as simple as "Fox News is the problem". The book presents past (from the first written languages through Rome and Gutenberg and presidential influence), present (scientific studies), and future (implants and the Singularity). It all comes down to how each of us individually takes responsibility for our participation in the media and the larger world. It's lovely that these ideas are told through the medium of comic books, possibly the most maligned and certainly one of the most difficult to pull off well when your protagonist is wearing normal clothing.