Name: Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
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Author: Yuval Noah Harari
ISBN: 9780593734223

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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Type

Physical Book

Author

Yuval Noah Harari

Publisher

Random House

Year

2024

Language

English

Pages

528

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.6 x 16.0 x 4.3 cm

Weight

0.57 kg.

ISBN13

9780593734223

Synopsis "Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI"

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens 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. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive? Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of 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 throughout history 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 in doing so, rediscovers our shared humanity.

Yuval Noah Harari

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Yuval Noah Harari (Israel, 1976) is an Israeli historian and writer, born in Kiryat Ata. He earned his PhD from the University of Oxford and is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His most famous book is Sapiens: From Animals to Gods, translated into dozens of languages and considered a global phenomenon. Other notable titles include Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and Nexus. Harari has been invited to international forums and his work explores human evolution, artificial intelligence, and the future of humanity.

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