Name: Nexus : A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
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Author: Noah Harari Yuval
ISBN: 9781911717089

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Physical Book

Author

Yuval Noah Harari

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year

2024

Language

English

Pages

528

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.0cm x 15.6cm

ISBN13

9781911717089

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

Yuval Noah Harari (Author) · Vintage Publishing · Hardcover

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

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.

Yuval Noah Harari

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Es profesor de Historia en la Universidad Hebrea de Jerusalén. Se especializó en Historia Medieval e Historia Militar, aunque sus investigaciones actuales se centran en los procesos macrohistóricos y en las relaciones entre historia y biología. Es considerado uno de los intelectuales más influyentes nuestro tiempo. En 2019, tras el reconocimiento internacional de sus libros, Yuval Noah Harari e Itzik Yahav fundaron Sapienship, una organización cuya misión es alentar la conversación global, señalar los desafíos más importantes y apoyar la búsqueda de soluciones colectivas. En 2018 y 2020 dio sendas conferencias magistrales en el Foro Económico Mundial de Davos. Asimismo, a lo largo de su trayectoria se ha reunido con líderes internacionales como Angela Merkel, Mauricio Macri, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, o con Mark Zuckerberg, CEO de Facebook, con quien conversó sobre el futuro de la tecnología.

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