《紐約時報》暢銷書榜首 • 繼《人類簡史》之後，本書作者又帶來了一部開創性的著作，講述了資訊網絡如何塑造並最終毀滅我們的世界。

「極具原創性……一位以千禧年尺度進行論證的歷史學家，完美地捕捉了時代的精神。」——《經濟學人》

「在我們所有人都在思考人工智慧和自動化內容生產的影響之際，這本意義深遠的著作恰逢其時……精闢而又發人深省。」——穆斯塔法·蘇萊曼，《即將到來的浪潮》作者

在過去的十萬年裡，我們智人累積了巨大的力量。然而，儘管我們取得了許多發現、發明和征服，如今卻發現自己正處於一場生存危機之中。世界正處於生態崩潰的邊緣。假訊息氾濫成災。而我們正一頭栽進人工智慧時代——一個威脅著要將我們毀滅的新型資訊網路。我們取得瞭如此多的成就，為何卻如此自毀？

《Nexus》以人類歷史的長河為視角，探討資訊流動如何塑造了我們自己以及我們所處的世界。從石器時代，到《聖經》的成書，再到早期現代的獵巫運動、史達林主義、納粹主義，直到今日民粹主義的復興，尤瓦爾·赫拉利引導我們思考訊息與真理、官僚主義與神話、智慧與權力之間錯綜複雜的關係。他探討了歷史上不同的社會和政治體係如何運用資訊來實現其目標，無論好壞。他也探討了當非人類智慧威脅到我們的生存時，我們所面臨的緊迫抉擇。

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.

“Strikingly original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly.”—The Economist

“This deeply important book comes at a critical time as we all think through the implications of AI and automated content production. . . . Masterful and provocative.”—Mustafa Suleyman, author of The Coming Wave

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. For all that we have accomplished, why are we so self-destructive?

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.