NTS to explore the social impact of the internet in new Citizen of Nowhere festival

It’s October 2018, an extreme right-winger called Jair Bolsonaro has just been elected President of Brazil with the help of a massive co-ordinated campaign on the Facebook-owned messaging site Whats App, and at his base in London the writer, thinker, curator and futurist William Galinsky is full of a sense of urgency. “People say that we’re living through something like the 1930s,” he says, “and of course there are parallels there. But fundamentally, I think this is more like the early 19th century – the moment when people realised that the huge technological disruption of the industrial revolution was literally going to change everything; communications, society, the way we do politics, everything.”