A review by geekyscot
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.25

Harari, being a historian by trade, is easily at his best when discussing historical facts or scientific theories, distilling complex ideas into digestible and interesting chunks. This book is at its best when he is doing so. Unfortunately, because Nexus is focused on AI and how it may impact us in the future there is a lot of discussion of possibilities and conjecture, which is interesting but really isn’t his strong suit. It doesn’t help that the fast-paced world of AI means that sections in here already feel out of date, something Harari himself admits would likely be the case. Interesting enough, but the weakest of his books that I’ve read.