With Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari changed the way humans think about history. With that framework in place, the historian-philosopher turned our attention to what happens next in Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. Now, I’m looking forward to his upcoming book, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI.

From the book blurb:

“Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of 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 throughout history 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.”

Release date September 10. Pre-order now.

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