Nexus : a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI /
"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...
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London :
Fern Press,
2024.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- What is information?
- Stories : unlimited connections
- Documents : the bite of the paper tigers
- Errors : the fantasy of infallibility
- Decisions : a brief history of democracy and totalitarianism
- The new members : how computers are different from printing presses
- Relentless : the network is always on
- Fallible : the network is often wrong
- Democracies : can we still hold a conversation?
- Totalitarianism : all power to the algorithms?
- The silicon curtain : global empire or global split?