Description
Spanning the Stone Age to the age of artificial intelligence, this sweeping history examines how information networks have enabled humans to build civilizations, organize societies, and exercise power. Through examples ranging from sacred texts and bureaucracies to totalitarian regimes and modern populism, it explores the complicated relationship between information and truth, myth and knowledge, and cooperation and control. The book’s central question is both historical and urgent: will AI strengthen humanity’s ability to work together, or place unprecedented power in the hands of algorithms and authoritarian systems? Combining broad historical perspective with a warning about the choices ahead, it calls for vigilance, critical thinking, and global cooperation in shaping the future of intelligent technologies.
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paperback
Diversified Publishing
Published Jan 1, 2024
816 pages
ISBN: 9798217077618
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First Published
2024
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari.