Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

16.2 x 4.3 x 24.1 cm, 528 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2024 by Fern Press.

ISBN:
978-1-911717-08-9
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The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens

Stories brought us together.

Books spread our ideas – and our mythologies.

The internet promised infinite knowledge.

The algorithm learned our secrets – and then turned us against each other.

What will AI do?

NEXUS is the thrilling account of how we arrived at this moment, and the urgent choices we must now make to survive – and to thrive.

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Information as foundation

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This was way more comprehensive and interesting than I expected.

Regardless of how AI actually goes, it's clear that it is going to have an immense impact on our civilisation.

I guess I'd never deeply thought into the implications for us when information is more important than currency, and that your store of information impacts your power (either on the world stage or in business) differently than classical economical power.

I liked the example of how a local restaurant can compete with McDonalds by cooking quality food or providing a good service. A local/small company cannot ever compete with the likes of Google because of the proportion of the world's information that goes through them.

I enjoyed the broad historical approach of this book and its discussion of mythology and bureaucracy. Definitely left me with a bit of a feeling of AI being a bit of a pandora's box - …

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  • AI
  • Artificial intelligence

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