Nexus : (Record no. 11194)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9781911717089
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 001.09HAR
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Personal name Harari, Yuval Noah
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Nexus :
Sub Title a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication New York
Name of publisher Fern Press
Year of publication 2024
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xxxii, 492p.
Other physical details 25 cm
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc 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
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Topical Term Information behavior--History.
Form subdivision Information networks--History.
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        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam Philosophy 03/26/2025 58921.00 001.09HAR UR011020 03/27/2025 Book