Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari · 2024
Index
- Introduction: The New Members
- Part I: Human Networks
- 1. What Is Information?
- 2. Stories: Unlimited Connections
- 3. Documents: The Bite of the Paper Tiger
- 4. Errors: The Fantasy of Infallibility
- 5. Decisions: A Brief History of Democracy and Totalitarianism
- Part II: The Inorganic Network
- 6. The New Members: Computers Become Relevant
- 7. Relentless: The Network Is Always On
- 8. Fallible: AI Often Gets Things Wrong
- 9. The Silicon Curtain: A New Division of the World
- 10. Conclusion: The Nexus of Information
Quote
"Information networks are the foundation of human society."
"The most important question of our time is what kind of information network we will build."