Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
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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 Stories brought us together Books spread our ideas - and our mythologies The internet promised infinite knowledge The algorithm learned our secrets - and then turned us against each other What will AI do? NEXUS is the thrilling account of how we arrived at this moment, and the urgent choices we must now make to survive - and to thrive. Praise for Yuval Noah Harari 'The great thinker of our age' The Times on 21 Lessons for the 21st Century 'Interesting and provocative' Barack Obama on Sapiens 'One of my favourite writers and thinkers' Natalie Portman on Sapiens 'Sweeps the cobwebs out of your brain . . . Radiates power and clarity' Sunday Times on Sapiens 'It altered how I view our species and our world' Guardian on Sapiens
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Yuval Noah Harari
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Yuval Noah Harari is a historian and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in world history and macro-historical processes. He is renowned for his bestselling book "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind," which explores the cognitive and societal evolution of Homo sapiens.…
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View all quotes →"Taken to extremes, such a pursuit of accuracy may lead us to try to represent the world on a one-to-one scale, as in the famous Jorge Luis Borges story 'On Exactitude in Science' (1946). In this story Borges tells of a fictitious ancient empire that became obsessed with producing ever more accurate ..."
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