Audiobook

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (2024) traces how information—and the networks it travels through—have shaped human societies from early oral systems to the rise of AI, arguing that shared myths and narratives, regardless of their factual basis, have been central to social cohesion and power. It warns that AI represents a new and potentially existentially threatening kind of information network—capable of autonomous decisions, mass manipulation, and undermining democracy—unless we build robust, self-correcting institutions to govern it