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041 _aEnglish
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100 _aYuval Noah Harari
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245 _aNexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
260 _bPenguin Random House
_aLondon
_c2024
300 _axxxii,492 p.
_bPB
_c23x15 cm.
365 _a3774
_b₹879.00
_c
_d₹1099.00
_e20%
_f12-09-2024
520 _aFrom renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world 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. If we are so wise, why are we so self-destructive? 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. Information is not the raw material of truth; neither is it a mere weapon. NEXUS explores the hopeful middle ground between these extremes, and of rediscovering our shared humanity.
650 _aArtificial Intelligence
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650 _aScience and Technology
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700 _aHARARI (Yuval Noah)
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