Martín Caparrós' new book, In The world then, a history of the present, is an abysmal journey. It tells us, among other things, about two worlds (one of the very rich and the other of thevery poor), the immense power of technology companies, extreme consumerism and the Internet empire.

The book is a fascinating exercise: seeing contemporary society as a historian of the future would see it who embarks on the task of unraveling the failure of a society (ours, the current one)