Why You Should Read “Nexus” by Harari

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In 2016, Google’s AI system, AlphaGo, was playing the ancient game of Go against world champion Lee Sedol.

Then came Move 37 — a move so strange, so alien, that the human commentators initially thought it was a mistake. It wasn’t.

It was the moment Harari realized everything he thought he knew about power, information, and human supremacy was wrong.

This book is about how information shapes power, how networks control our lives, and why we might be witnessing the biggest shift in human organization since the invention of writing itself.

The Invisible Networks That Control Everything

Think about the last time you checked your phone. Perhaps you were looking at Twitter (now X), scrolling through Instagram, or checking your crypto wallet. What you were really doing was plugging into vast information networks that shape our reality in ways we barely understand. These networks aren’t new — they’ve been with us since the first human carved marks into a stone tablet. But something unprecedented is happening now, and we need to talk about it.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Syndrome

There’s an old German poem about a sorcerer’s apprentice who animates a broom to do his work, only to lose…