Nexus: a brief history of information networks from the stone age to AI

By:

Harari, Yuval Noah

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Fern Press 2024Description: xxxii, 492p. pbkISBN:

9781911717096

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

001.09 HAR

Summary: "From 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?"

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Plaksha University Library	Computer science	001.09 HAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		005304

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"From 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?"

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