Thinking On Paper

Hey book lover! It's reading time. And NEW BOOK TIME. Book 6 is Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus. We're unpacking the prologue and chapter one and trying to get our heads around the complex web of truth, power, and humanity's relationship with information.

From ancient myths to AI, our networks of cooperation shape who we are, what we believe and who kills who. It's deep, grisly, beautiful human history.

It's live. It's unscripted.

Please enjoy the show
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Timestamps

TIMESTAMPS
(00:00) - Welcome: Disruptors and Curious Minds, CEOs, Founders, and Book Lovers
(00:50) - Revisiting Previous Books in the Thinking On Paper Book Club
(01:08) - Exploring the Brief History of Information Networks
(01:33) - Debate: Dust Jackets on Books - Yes or No?
(02:40) - Insights from the Nexus Prologue
(03:08) - Is Yuval Noah Harari’s Perspective Too Dramatic?
(04:54) - The Naïve View of Information Explained
(05:58) - The Growing Spectre of Artificial Intelligence
(06:48) - Understanding Delusional Networks in Human History
(10:03) - Exploring the Relationship Between Truth, Wisdom, and Power
(13:52) - Yuval Noah Harari's Definition: What Is Information?
(16:58) - The Story of Cher Ami: Information as the Transfer of a Story
(17:36) - Most Information Does Not Represent Anything – What Does That Mean?
(19:49) - Misinformation, Disinformation, and the Dove of Peace
(21:37) - Why Truth Is Not the Same as Reality
(28:00) - Music as a Medium of Information and Communication
(29:26) - AI-Generated Art and the Importance of Micro Decisions
(31:07) - Music, Silence, and the Information You Don't Say
(34:57) - Information in the Context of Quantum Mechanics