Speaking his return to the beat is, Yoval Noah Harare, the renowned historian and

professor has authored some of the most influential non-fiction books today, Sapiens,

has over 45 million copies in circulation in over 60 languages.

Barack Obama recommended it as essential reading

for understanding the history of civilization

while tech titans have recommended or clashed

with Harare's AI and and Tech Theories for years.

His new book, Is Nexus, a brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI?

Welcome back.

Thank you. It's good to be here. Great to have you in person. Like many people I've read a lot of your works including the new one nexus

you offer a different lens for information and a focus not only on whether something is true or false but

what the information does. How does that lens apply to some of the propaganda that our viewers are very familiar with in America

say Donald Trump lying about the election.

Hmm.

Well the key thing to realize about information is that information isn't truth.

Most information in the world is not truth because the truth is a very costly and rare kind of

information. This kind of information.

This kind of very naive thinking

that if we just flood the world with more and more

information, the truth will float up,

it won't.

It will sink to the bottom if you want to write a true story

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