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Martin Gurri is a geopolitical analyst and expert in new media and information effects. He served the DNI Open Source Center in various senior positions, including Director of Research and chief of a Latin American bureau. Gurri is the author of articles on social media and the influence of visual imagery and of the book The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium which has been first published in 2014 (updated in 2018) and "praised for foreshadowing the political shocks of Brexit and the rise of Donald Trump", especially the latter argument much in line with Michael Moore. Marc Andreessen, co-founder, Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz commented on it as: "All over the world, elite institutions from governments to media to academia are losing their authority and monopoly control of information to dynamic amateurs and the broader public. This book, until now only in samizdat (and Kindle) form, has been my #1 handout for the last several years to anyone seeking to understand this unfolding shift in power from hierarchies to networks in the age of the Internet."

Gurri is hailed as "The Prophet of the Revolt" by the The Pull Request, a publication about technology by technologists for technologists. His blog is "The Fifth Wave" which "pursues the themes first elaborated in The Revolt of the Public ."