Yuval Noah Harari starts recounting the history of information networks. This takes him almost 200 pages before arriving at AI and the “computer network,” which, I think, are the most interesting topics he discusses. It took me a long time to go over the first 200 pages—even considering they might very well be a summary of “Sapiens” and “Homo Deus”—and a couple of days to cover the remaining 200 pages. What I’m trying to say is that, if you have patience and give the book a chance, it eventually becomes a page-turner, a brilliant account of recent history, of why AI might not be all fun and games, and of how we, humans, are entirely responsible for this “alien” technology being the next version of infornation networks—not the last.