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Book excerpt: "Nexus" by Yuval Noah Harari

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Yuval Noah Harari is the author of the bestseller " Sapiens : A Brief History of Humankind" Harari 's new book examines how intelligence has shaped and controlled civilizations throughout history.

Harari: Information is increasingly seen by many philosophers and biologists as the most basic building block of reality.

Yuval Harari : The ambivalence of information has played an important role in the annals of military espionage.

During World War I , pro-British Jews living in Palestine set up a spy network to inform the British about Ottoman troop movements.

When is a pigeon just a pigeon, and when is it information? Harari argues that information is an attempt to represent reality.

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