Nexus [CD] : a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI 的封面图片
题名:
Nexus [CD] : a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI
GVPL_EDITION:
Unabridged.
PUBDATE:
2024
GVPL_PUBLICATION_INFO:
[New York] : Random House Audio, [2024]
物理描述:
14 audio discs (17 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9780593948941
摘要:
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. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI, a new 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 of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of 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 throughout history 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.
GVPL_PERFORMER:
Read by Vidish Athavale.
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LANGUAGE:
英文
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