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049			_aAlfaisal Main Library
050	0	0	_aZA3075 _b.H375 2024
100	1		_aHarari, Yuval N., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aNexus : _ba brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI / _cYuval Noah Harari.
246	3	0	_aBrief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI
250			_aFirst U.S. edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c©2024
300			_a 506 pages _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aWhat is information? -- Stories : unlimited connections -- Documents : the bite of the paper tigers -- Errors : the fantasy of infallibility -- Decisions : a brief history of democracy and totalitarianism -- The new members : how computers are different from printing presses -- Relentless : the network is always on -- Fallible : the network is often wrong -- Democracies : can we still hold a conversation? -- Totalitarianism : all power to the algorithms? -- The silicon curtain : global empire or global split?
520			_a"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. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive? 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. And he addresses the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence"--
650		0	_aInformation behavior _xHistory.
650		0	_aInformation networks _xHistory.
650		0	_aInformation technology _xHistory.
655		0	_aPrint books. _2local _94
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