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A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Information networks have always chosen order over truth, and Harari asks what happens when they stop needing us in the loop.
Harari traces how information networks have shaped power from the earliest myths through print, bureaucracy and mass media to machine learning. His argument is that networks succeed by building order rather than by finding truth, and that the two frequently pull apart. The book is more anxious than his earlier work about what happens when the network stops needing people in the loop.
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