Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI-智人之上：从石器时代到人工智能的信息网络简史

在过去10万年里，我们智人积攒了巨大的力量。然而，持续不断的发明与征服也将我们推入了一场生存危机。全球生态濒临崩溃，虚假信息泛滥。我们正一头扎进可能毁灭我们自身的、由新型信息网络组成的人工智能时代。

人类如此智慧，为什么却总是倾向于自我毁灭？我们为什么走到了生态和技术自杀的边缘？当非人智能威胁到人类的生存时，人类如何做出明智的选择？

从口口相传的故事，到文字书写，再到人工智能，《智人之上》透过大历史的长镜头，讲述信息网络如何塑造了我们和我们的世界，邀请我们思考信息与真相、神话与官僚制度、智慧与权力之间的复杂关系，探讨不同的社会结构在试图构建信息网络时面临的关键困境。

书名：Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI《智人之上：从石器时代到人工智能的信息网络简史》

作者：Yuval Noah Harari

简介：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. If we are so wise, why are we so self-destructive?

NEXUS considers how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age through 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 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; neither is it a mere weapon. NEXUS explores the hopeful middle ground between these extremes, and of rediscovering our shared humanity.