A journey through the evolution of knowledge communication and information.The debut nonfiction book by bestselling author Chris Haughton.History as it is often taught is a list of kings and queens and treaties and events. It presents the what and when but it rarely asks why.Why is it that we had kings and queens at allWhy then all of a sudden did we abandon them and shift to democraciesWhy did the worlds religions rise around the same timeWhy is society dominated by menThe answers all come down to the same thing information. The striving to share information and at the same time the striving to undermine it explains so much of todays world and connects so many seemingly unconnected things the rise of religions states science democracy the west militarism racism fascism consumerism big tech polarisation and AI.This history of information is closely connected to the history of visual communication and as these two are largely the same it makes sense to tell this story visually a history of graphics told through graphics.