| 摘 要 註 | For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulatedenormous power. But despite all our discoveries,inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in anexistential crisis. The world is on the verge ofecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we arerushing headlong into the age of AI-a new informationnetwork that threatens to annihilate us. For all that wehave accomplished, why are we so self-destructive? Nexuslooks through the long lens of human history to considerhow the flow of information has shaped us, and our world.Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization ofthe Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism,and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harariasks us to consider the complex relationship betweeninformation and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdomand power. He explores how different societies andpolitical systems throughout history have wieldedinformation to achieve their goals, for good and ill. Andhe addresses the urgent choices we face as non-humanintelligence threatens our very existence"-- |
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