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Nexus : a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI / Yuval Noah Harari.

By: Harari, Yuval N [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Random House, [2024]Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: xxxii, 492 pages : illustration ; 25 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780593734223Subject(s): Information behavior -- History | Information networks -- History | Information technology -- HistoryGenre/Form: Informational works.DDC classification: 001.09 LOC classification: ZA3075 | .H375 2024
Contents:
What is information? -- Stories : unlimited connections -- Documents : the bite of the paper tigers -- Errors : the fantasy of infallibility -- Decisions : a brief history of democracy and totalitarianism -- The new members : how computers are different from printing presses -- Relentless : the network is always on -- Fallible : the network is often wrong -- Democracies : can we still hold a conversation? -- Totalitarianism : all power to the algorithms? -- The silicon curtain : global empire or global split?
Summary: From the Stone Age through the canonization of the Bible, Stalinism, Nazism and the resurgence of populism today, a historian and philosopher explores human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world, addressing the urgent choices we face as nonhuman intelligence threatens our very existence.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-476) and index.

What is information? -- Stories : unlimited connections -- Documents : the bite of the paper tigers -- Errors : the fantasy of infallibility -- Decisions : a brief history of democracy and totalitarianism -- The new members : how computers are different from printing presses -- Relentless : the network is always on -- Fallible : the network is often wrong -- Democracies : can we still hold a conversation? -- Totalitarianism : all power to the algorithms? -- The silicon curtain : global empire or global split?

From the Stone Age through the canonization of the Bible, Stalinism, Nazism and the resurgence of populism today, a historian and philosopher explores human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world, addressing the urgent choices we face as nonhuman intelligence threatens our very existence.

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