The story of how information networks have made and unmade our world from the #1 Sunday Times
bestselling author of Sapiens. For the last 100 000 years humans 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. Misinformation abounds.
And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI - a new information network that threatens to
annihilate us. If we are so wise why are we so self-destructive? NEXUS considers how the
flow of information has shaped us and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age through the
Bible early modern witch-hunts Stalinism Nazism and the resurgence of populism today Yuval
Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth
bureaucracy and mythology wisdom and power. He explores how different societies and political
systems have wielded information to achieve their goals for good and ill. And he addresses the
urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence. Information is
not the raw material of truth neither is it a mere weapon. NEXUS explores the hopeful middle
ground between these extremes and of rediscovering our shared humanity. Praise for Yuval
Noah Harari 'The great thinker of our age' The Times on 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
'Interesting and provocative' Barack Obama on Sapiens 'One of my favourite writers and
thinkers' Natalie Portman on Sapiens 'Sweeps the cobwebs out of your brain . . . Radiates
power and clarity' Sunday Times on Sapiens 'It altered how I view our species and our world'
Guardian on Sapiens
