NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Million-selling author Yuval Noah Harari has another grand theme for his next book: Information.
Harari's 鈥淣exus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI鈥� will be published Sept. 10 by Penguin Random House. Harari is known for such broad and accessible historical works as 鈥淪apiens鈥� and 鈥淗omo Deus.鈥�
鈥淲e鈥檙e living through the most profound information revolution in human history, but we can鈥檛 understand it unless we understand what has come before," Harari said in a statement Tuesday.
"'Nexus' doesn鈥檛 argue that understanding the past enables us to predict the future. My goal is to show that by making informed choices, we can still prevent the worst outcomes. Because if we can鈥檛 change the future, then why waste time discussing it?鈥�
Harari's books have sold more than 45 million copies worldwide and have been translated into dozens of languages, according to Penguin Random House. The publisher is calling the book 鈥渁 revelatory framework with which to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power.鈥�
In a statement Tuesday, Penguin Random House Global CEO Nihar Malaviya called the new book 鈥渁 brilliant historical framework to understand this moment and, crucially, to think about what we might do, before it鈥檚 too late."
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An earlier version of this report misspelled Yuval Noah Harari's last name.
Hillel Italie, The Associated Press
