I’m a big fan of Yuval Noah Harari’s work. A professor who can write books like no one else, one of my role models. I’ve read Sapiens, Homo Deus and 21 Lessons… now it was time for Nexus.
The book is about information networks and AI. Well, mostly about the information networks and storytelling. AI is there, but not as much as I wanted to see. Not to complain, Harari is a humanist and social scientists, not a software engineer or computer scientists.
The book discusses what information really is and how it evolves over time. It focuses on storytelling and providing meaning for the data and the information. It helps us to understand the power of stories and the power of information – one could say that the “pen is mightier than the sword”, and this book delivers on that.
I recommend this as a reading over X-Mas, as the holidays are coming.
