In the last 100,000 years, we sapiens have amassed enormous power. And despite all our discoveries, inventions and achievements, we are now faced with an ontological crisis. The world is on the brink of environmental destruction. Misinformation has grown to an enormous extent. And in the background of all this, we jump headlong into the era of AB. A new information network that threatens to destroy us. After achieving so much, why are we sapiens such a self-destructive species?
In Nexus, Harari again took the history of mankind under the magnifying glass. This time, he explores how the flow of information has shaped us and our world. Taking a journey from the Stone Age to the canonization of the Bible, from the early medieval witch to Stalinism, Nazism, and the rise of populism today, Harari draws our attention to the intricate relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, discretion and power.
He explains how societies and political systems throughout history have used information to achieve their goals for good or ill. Information is not absolute truth, nor is it merely a weapon. Nexus reveals the golden mean between these two extremes.
