NEXUS : Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Language: English Publication details: Great Britain Fern Press 2024Edition: 1Description: 492ISBN:- 9781911717096
- 001.09 HAR/NE
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NEXUS considers how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age through 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 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.
Prologue
Part I: Human networks / Chapter 1: What is information
Chapter 2: Stories: Unlimited connections
Chapter 3: Documents: The bite of the paper tigers
Chapter 4: Errors: The fantasy of infallibility
Chapter 5: Decisions: A brief history of democracy and totalitarianism
Part II: The inorganic network / Chapter 6: The new members: How computers are different from printing presses
Chapter 7: Relentless: The network is always on
Chapter 8: Fallible: The network is often wrong
Part III: Computer politics / Chapter 9: Democracies: Can we still hold a conversation?
Chapter 10: Totalitarianism: All power to the algorithms?
Chapter 11: The silicon curtain: Global empire or global split?
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
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