In the last 100,000 years, sapiens have gained immense power. But despite our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we have now entered an existential crisis. The world is on the brink of ecological disaster. Political tensions are rising. Misinformation is rampant. And we are rapidly entering the age of artificial intelligence – an alien network of information that threatens to annihilate us. Why, despite all we have achieved, are we so self-destructive? Nexus looks through the lens of human history to understand how the flow of information has brought us here. Leading us from the Stone Age and the formation of the biblical canon to the invention of printing, the rise of mass media, and the recent resurgence of populism, Yuval Noah Harari invites us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power. He examines how systems like the Roman Empire, the Catholic Church, and the Soviet Union used information to achieve their goals, good or bad. And he talks about the urgent choices we face as non-human intelligence threatens our very existence. Information is not the raw material of truth nor merely a weapon. Nexus explores the hopeful intermediate space between these two extremes, rediscovering along the way our common human condition.