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

I did the audio version of the book. Yuval Harari is an excellent storyteller and always leaves you with an afterthought.

Nexus is meant to be a reflection on where humanity is heading, especially with the rise of AI, disinformation, and global instability. But to be honest, I didn’t enjoy it as much. It felt like a lot of repetition and basically a recap of his earlier books. The same themes from Sapiens and Homo Deus kept popping up, just re-worded. In those earlier books, his perspective felt fresh and thought-provoking. This one didn’t have that same spark.

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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Last month, I reviewed a book called AI Snake Oil, published in September 2024, which discusses the hype surrounding AI and argues that the distrust and fear expressed by several prominent figures and scientists are unwarranted. This book, The Coming Wave, was written a year earlier, in September 2023. After exploring both sides of the argument’one dismissing AI as unlikely to become all-consuming, more intelligent, or more capable than humans, and the other outlining various use cases where things could spiral out of control’I find both perspectives valid. It was also fun reading it in reverse order.

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