04171cam a2200805 4500 1592705099 TxAuBib 20240912120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593734247 0593734246 B0CRP6SPL1 Amazon 0ecb2e8b-5615-4b9c-88f1-a63af9c1fab8 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10382620 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Harari, Yuval Noah. Nexus [Libby] : A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. Random House Publishing Group, 2024. Education. big data. information. politics. Civilizations. Computers. anthropology. Civilization. propaganda. culture. society. AI. World History. privacy. nexus. power. Evolution. surveillance. Innovation. History. truth. artificial intelligence. Information Technology. Technology. Sociology. Disinformation. gifts for dad. history books. gifts for history buffs. dad books. Yuval Noah Harari. history gifts. history buff gifts. The Nexus. information technology books. Information Networks. Nexus Book. nexus books. nexus harari. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 5536kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Computer Technology. History. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>From the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Sapiens</i> comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.</b><br /> &#160;<br /> <b>“Masterful and provocative.”—Mustafa Suleyman</b><br /> 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&#160;new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive?<br /> <br /> <i>Nexus</i> 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.<br /> &#160;<br /> Information is not the raw material of truth; neither is it a mere weapon. <i>Nexus</i> explores the hopeful middle ground between these extremes, and in doing so, rediscovers our shared humanity. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-09-12 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0ecb2e8b-5615-4b9c-88f1-a63af9c1fab8&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0ecb2e8b-5615-4b9c-88f1-a63af9c1fab8&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0ecb2e8b-5615-4b9c-88f1-a63af9c1fab8&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)