The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

Martin Gurri's argument is that technology has reversed the balance of information power, shifting it from the elites who run the large hierarchical institutions of the industrial age, from governments and political parties to the media, toward the public. He traces how digitally enabled insurgencies, fed by an enormous information sphere, have mobilized millions of ordinary citizens across the globe. Economist Arnold Kling said that Gurri saw it coming. Since the book was first published, it has been updated with an extensive analysis of Donald Trump's rise to the presidency and the Brexit vote, and with a speculative look at whether elites can reform democracy and whether new organizing principles suited to a digital world can emerge.

Marc Andreessen said it had been his top handout for several years to anyone trying to understand the shift of power from hierarchies to networks in the internet age.