Nexus

Description

Title: Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Publisher: Vintage Publishing, 2024
Format: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN-13: 9781911717096

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari is a wide-ranging non-fiction book about how information has shaped human history. Harari explores the systems, stories, documents, institutions, and technologies that have allowed societies to cooperate, govern, remember, and sometimes lose control.

The book moves from early human communication to writing, religion, bureaucracy, mass media, computer networks, and artificial intelligence. Its central concern is not only how information spreads, but how it creates trust, power, order, conflict, and shared realities across civilizations.

This paperback edition is suitable for readers interested in history, technology, politics, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and the future of society. It is especially relevant for anyone trying to understand the age of algorithms, misinformation, data power, and rapid technological change.