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I've done it! I've reached the peak of enlightenment!

What the? Ethan? Is that you?

Oh, hi, Ashley.

I thought you might be here.

What are you listening to? Your brow is very knitted. Is it Taylor Swift?

No, it's the audiobook of Nexus, by the internationally best-selling author of Sapien's Uval Noah Harari. Oh, I love Harari.

What mind-scambling new perspective on human history is he showing us in Nexus?

Just a hint of an outline, I'm begging you, Ethan.

Okay, it's the story of how information networks have made and unmade our world.

And it's a must listen for anyone interested in AI

and what we can learn from history and the urgent choices we must

now make to survive and to thrive. Oh, sounds like a good one. Who's narrating it, Ethan? Is it

someone great? Yes, for Dishathawali. He's very good. Perfect. Shift up in your bivouac and

unplug your headphones. I'll listen to a few chapters with you and then begin my descent.

I'm already halfway through, Ashley. That's okay. You can just explain what's happened so far, and then I'll listen to the whole of the rest with you.

Can't believe my luck.

Not only finding that you are up here,

but that the audiobook of Yuval Noah Harare's Nexus is out now.

I added one more podcast to the giant podcast bin.

Now you have plucked that podcast out and started listening I took my

microphone and found some human folk then I recorded all the noises while we

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