About the Book: Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone
Age to AI
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.
International and political tensions are rising. And we are rushing headlong
into the age of AI ? an alien 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