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

Yuval Noah Harari returns with a major new work in September 2024: NEXUS: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI.

Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, NEXUS asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom, and power. Harari explores how different societies and political systems have wielded information to achieve their goals and impose order, for good and bad. And he addresses the urgent choices we face today, as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence.