Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.“ Strikingly original . . .

The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. Nexus looks through the long ...#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.“ Strikingly original .

. . The world is on the verge of ecological collapse.

Misinformation abounds. 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. Nexus explores the hopeful middle ground between these extremes, and in doing so, rediscovers our shared humanity.