Nexus — Yuval Noah Harari (2024)

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, Yuval Noah Harari’s 2024 analysis, argues that AI represents a qualitatively new kind of information agent—not just a tool but an entity capable of autonomous decisions that reshape power structures. Harari traces historical patterns across 40,000 years, demonstrating that from the Roman Empire to the internet, each network shift concentrated authority.