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020			_a9780593734223 _qhardback _qacid-free paper
020			_a9780593736814 _q(international edition)
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100	1		_aHarari, Yuval Noah, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aNexus : _ba Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI / _cYuval Noah Harari.
246	3	0	_aBrief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to Artificial Intelligence
250			_aFirst U.S. edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c[2024]
264		4	_c©2024
300			_axxxii, 492 pages : _c24 cm
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
504			_a Includes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aWhat 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?
520			_a"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 new information network that threatens to annihilate us. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive? Nexus 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" -- Provided by publisher.
650	0		_aInformation behavior _xHistory.
650	0		_aInformation networks _xHistory.
650	0		_aInformation technology _xHistory.
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