Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari

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Nexus-by-Yuval-Noah-Harari-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.