A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI Harari, Yuval N. creator author. text bibliography enk 2024 monographic eng

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xxxii, 492 pages ; 24 cm "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"--Book cover. Prologue -- Part I: Human networks / Chapter 1: What is information -- Chapter 2: Stories: Unlimited connections -- Chapter 3: Documents: The bite of the paper tigers -- Chapter 4: Errors: The fantasy of infallibility -- Chapter 5: Decisions: A brief history of democracy and totalitarianism -- Part II: The inorganic network / Chapter 6: The new members: How computers are different from printing presses -- Chapter 7: Relentless: The network is always on -- Chapter 8: Fallible: The network is often wrong -- Part III: Computer politics / Chapter 9: Democracies: Can we still hold a conversation? -- Chapter 10: Totalitarianism: All power to the algorithms? -- Chapter 11: The silicon curtain: Global empire or global split? -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index. Yuval Noah Harari. Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-476) and index. Information behavior History Information networks History Information technology History 001.09 YUV 9781911717096 MBIP 260113 20260113102310.0 300077724 eng