Penguin Nexus: The Sunday Times bestselling history about humans, technology and AI from the author of Sapiens

The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens Stories brought us together. Books spread our ideas – and our mythologies. The internet promised infinite knowledge. The algorithm learned our secrets – and then turned us against each other. What will AI do? NEXUS is the thrilling account of how we arrived at this moment, and the urgent choices we must now make to survive – and to thrive. PRAISE FOR NEXUS ‘If you read only one non-fiction book this year, consider this one, to know more of our history and be aware of our choices to come’ TOM HANKS 'One of the most remarkable intellects of our generation' RORY STEWART ‘Tremendous, thought-provoking and so very well-reasoned . . . If there is one book that I would urge everyone to read – it is Nexus’ STEPHEN FRY 'A wake-up call in the gentlest, most urgent way' YOTAM OTTOLENGHI 'This deeply important book comes at a critical time as we all think through the implications of AI’ MUSTAFA SULEYMAN 'A super narrative writer' GUARDIAN ‘[Harari] sticks the world together in a gleaming shape that inspires and excites' TELEGRAPH PRAISE FOR YUVAL NOAH HARARI ‘The great thinker of our age’ The Times ‘Interesting and provocative’ Barack Obama ‘One of my favourite writers and thinkers’ Natalie Portman **Instant Sunday Times bestseller, September 2024**