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Wise Animals explores the history of our relationship with technology, pointing out that we have been deeply involved with our creations from the first use of tools and the taming of fire, via the invention of reading and printing, to the development of the computer and the creation of the internet.

Unpick the complexities of our digital world and discover how to live well within it. Over the last decade, through digital media, we have crossed a number of significant thresholds: the interconnection of over half of the world’s adult population through mobile telephony and the internet and the devotion of more than half the waking hours of a western generation to mediated experience.

Der Brite Azi Bello ist ein Hacker, einer der besten. Unerkannt bewegt er sich durch das Netz - und so ist der Schock umso größer, als eines Morgens jemand an die Tür seines mit Technik vollgestellten Gartenschuppens klopft. Es geht um Sigma, seine engste Hacker-Bekanntschaft. Hinter dem Pseudonym verbirgt sich die junge Muslima Munira, die dringend Hilfe braucht: Ihr Cousin ist zum IS nach Syrien gegangen, wo er furchtbarste Greuel erlebt hat. Nun will er nichts als zurück nach Europa. Im Gegenzug verspricht er explosive Informationen.

Azi Bello is an amiable outsider with a genius for hacking. Having spent the better part of his life holed up in a shed in his backyard, Azi has become increasingly enmeshed in the dark side of the internet. With the divide between online and offline worlds vanishing, so, too, is the line between those transforming civilization through technology and those trying to bring it to its knees. Dark networks rule.