Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, by Yuval Noah Harari, Random House, 528 pages, $35 Early in Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, the book that made him a ...

On Friday, Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, shared a video on X, formerly Twitter, in which historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari warned that humanity is at risk of being overwhelmed by the ...

Does the rise of artificial intelligence mean the decline—and even end—of Homo sapiens? That’s the question we posed to author, historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, who sees the potential for ...

Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the bestseller "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind," returns with "Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI" (Random House). It ...

So begins Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), by the Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari, and so began one of the 21st century’s most astonishing academic careers. Sapiens has sold more than ...

Will artificial intelligence be a boon for mankind, or is it a deadly threat? In Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari makes it very clear he fears it is the latter. In his best-known book, Sapiens (2011), the ...

Historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari has a message for anyone sleepwalking through the AI revolution: wake up—before the algorithms finish rewriting our reality. What Happened: During his ...

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Mark Zuckerberg’s 12th pick for his Year of Books is Yuval Noah Harari’s catalogue of the rise of humankind, Sapiens. Humans are petty, selfish, brutal, and ambitious; we’re generous, foolish, ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the bestseller "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind," returns with "Nexus: A Brief ...