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If anyone is still under any illusion that AI is some sort of saviour for mankind, read this book. Its comprehensive arguments draw on history, creativity, science, politics, every facet of human life, to offer, guidance, warnings, and red flags to look out for. We're already crashing through those red flags, this book is urgent.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.
“Striking 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 allour discoveries, inventions, and conquests,…
The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.
The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.
Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…
This is an impeccably researched book that is given a human perspective, as if one is there observing the events, characters and emotions as they happened. My work has taken me to various parts of Israel, Gaza and the surrounding area/countries on numerous occasions. Over time, one gains an easy familiarity with an incomplete and assumed history that doesn't fit the various rhetoric, but fits personal observations, experiences and conversations. This book fundamentally changed that easy familiarity, challenging what I thought I knew, filling gaps and exposing me to new insights and ways of looking at my own experiences in the region. The narrative genuinely carries the reader through the generations of two families, making sense of the extraordinary passions and experiences, and how some cannot let go of the past while others seek an accommodation that makes a shared future possible. Of course, the conflicts that have expanded across…
“Extraordinary … A sweeping history of the Palestinian-Israeli conundrum … Highly readable and evocative.” – The Washington Post
The tale of a simple act of faith between two young people, one Israeli and one Palestinian, that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East – with an updated afterword by the author.
In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he…
