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Nexus - A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
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Nexus - A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover)
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The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world
from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens.
For the last 100,000 years, humans have accumulated enormous power. But
despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests, we now find
ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of
ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing
headlong into the age of AI – a new information network that threatens
to annihilate us. If we are so wise, why are we so self-destructive?
NEXUS considers how the flow of information has shaped us, and our
world. Taking us from the Stone Age through the Bible, early modern
witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism and the resurgence of populism today,
Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between
information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He
explores how different societies and political systems have wielded
information to achieve their goals, for good and ill. And he addresses
the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very
existence.
Information is not the raw material of truth; neither is it a mere
weapon. NEXUS explores the hopeful middle ground between these
extremes, and of rediscovering our shared humanity.
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