Nexus: A Brief History of Information.. by Yuval Harari | Non-Fiction Book Club

You're welcome to join us for the upcoming book club meeting.
We will discuss the themes from Yuval Noah Harari book "Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI".

The event will take place on November 28nd, 17:30 at Condeco Kompassen.
You do not have to read the books in order to join these meetings.

Hope to see you there and look forward to interesting discussions.

Don't forget to join the goodread group to learn more and decide about books to come.

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Book Summary:
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.

Text Source: goodreads.com
Cover Source: kinokuniya.com.au
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