《Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks...》作者：Yuval Noah Harari【EPUB】

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全名：Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI


简介：From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.

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.

Information is not the raw material of truth, nor is it a mere weapon. Nexus explores the hopeful middle ground between these extremes, and in doing so, rediscovers our shared humanity.

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全名：《新星：从石器时代到人工智能的信息网络简史》
简介：《人类简史》作者尤瓦尔·赫拉利带来突破性故事，讲述信息网络如何塑造并重塑我们的世界。
在过去的10万年里，我们智人积累了巨大的力量。但尽管我们取得了所有的发现、发明和征服，我们现在却发现自己处于一场生存危机之中。世界正濒临生态崩溃的边缘。错误信息泛滥。我们正在急速迈入人工智能时代——一个新的信息网络，威胁要消灭我们。鉴于我们所取得的成就，为什么我们会如此自毁？
《新星》透过人类历史的漫长视角，审视信息流动如何塑造了我们和我们周围的世界。它带我们从石器时代出发，穿越圣经的圣化、早期现代女巫审判、斯大林主义、纳粹主义以及今天民粹主义的复苏，尤瓦尔·赫拉利让我们思考信息和真理、官僚制度和神话、智慧和权力之间的复杂关系。他探讨了历史上的不同社会和政治制度如何运用信息来实现他们的目标，无论好坏。他还讨论了我们面临的选择紧迫性，因为非人类智能威胁到了我们的存在本身。
信息不是真理的原始材料，也不是单纯的武器。《新星》探索了这些极端之间的充满希望的中间地带，并在这样做的时候，重新发现了我们共同的人性。