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

Author: Harari, Yuval Noah Information theoryPublished on 10 September 2024 by Vintage Publishing (Fern Press) in the United Kingdom.Hardback | 528 pages163 x 242 x 47 | 776g The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories 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 NEXUSOne of the most remarkable intellects of our generation RORY STEWART‘Tremendous, thought-provoking and so very well-reasoned . . . If there is one book that I would urge everyone to read – it is Nexus’ STEPHEN FRYA wake-up call in the gentlest, most urgent way YOTAM OTTOLENGHIThis deeply important book comes at a critical time as we all think through the implications of AI’ MUSTAFA SULEYMANA super narrative writer GUARDIAN‘[Harari] sticks the world together in a gleaming shape that inspires and excites TELEGRAPHPRAISE FOR YUVAL NOAH HARARI‘The great thinker of our age’ The Times‘Interesting and provocative’ Barack Obama‘One of my favourite writers and thinkers’ Natalie Portman**Instant Sunday Times bestseller, September 2024**