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An inspiring and thought-provoking exploration of how the digital age is reshaping our world, by bestselling and Women's Award-winning author Naomi Alderman. What is the most important thing you can know about your life? In this era-defining book, inspired by her pioneering series of articles on Radio 4, Naomi Alderman directs her unbridled curiosity and insight into a question that affects us all: how do we understand the times we live in, and how do we cope with them? Alderman calls this era the “information crisis.” The Internet has flooded us with more knowledge, opinions, ideas and opportunities, as well as verbal attacks and misinformation, than ever before. It allows us to learn more quickly, it allows us to spread lies more quickly, it brings us closer together, it also divides us in new ways, and it is now the lens through which we perceive and understand the world. There is no turning back. But we've been through this before. In fact, this is the third information crisis facing humanity. The invention of writing 5,000 years ago, and then the printing press 600 years ago, radically changed our perceptions, interactions, and mental worlds, in ways that seem all too familiar. In light of the abundance of information, people feel fear, anger, anxiety and distress, as well as their knowledge, culture and curiosity increasing. By reviewing past information crises, in all their turmoil and progress, Alderman asks what we can learn from the past to better understand our present and prepare for our future. Drawing on the works of philosophers and historians, Don't Burn Someone at the Stall Today explores how modern technology is opening up new horizons of existence and helping us chart a way forward (again) across the turbulent sea of ​​information.