How social media has changed the way we look at elites

The phone you’re holding in your hands can be a weapon. Leaders of the 21st century can be defeated with smart devices. It hasn’t always been this way: until recently, they could live without anyone knowing about their private lives, being followed by cameras, and the entire online world watching their every careless word. 

When will the elite realize how to handle the shift in the nature of their authority? If we all have information, and with it, power, is there even a need for hierarchy and leaders today? Can social media tear society apart, or is a new balance on the way? That’s what we talked about with ex-CIA analyst Martin Gurri at Brain Bar.