Emergents shows what is becoming possible as the sprawling mess of systems we live with and depend on - embedded in every object that has a power cord - gets put to new and unpredictable uses. Government databases and public utilities, or a simple, massive, record of would-be adulterers, can be disrupted just as effectively by sophisticated attacks launched by foreign governments, computer-literate teenagers bored on a Sunday afternoon, or even a single man working from his bedroom. <br />
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From the director of Steal This Film, Emergents is a story of a revolution without qualities, unfolding not on democratic, egalitarian, or even liberatory lines, but through and via what technologies make possible. Its radicals don’t need permission to exist – neither from the State, venture capitalists, nor ordinary citizens – yet they can alter our world incalculably. They’re too small to regulate, too nimble to capture and they keep their own counsel when it comes to ethics, political affin