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Currently, human society is facing three major challenges: technological subversion, ecological collapse and nuclear war. The identity of "country" is no longer sufficient to meet today's challenges. No country can solve global problems independently. Artificial intelligence and biotechnology are subverting the original social structure and distribution methods, and data has become the most important resource. When data giants know themselves better than we do, and when "online" becomes a way of survival, how to regulate the ownership of data? Can a global community that upholds human freedom and equality be established? Artificial intelligence and biotechnology have given humans the ability to reshape and redesign life. How can we use this ability to stage a new drama? In a world where information is bombarded with information that is often useless, clarity is a power. For various issues related to the destiny of mankind, Yuval Harari did not give simple answers in "A Brief History of Today", but triggered us to think further.

Over the past 100,000 years, humans have built large cooperative networks and accumulated tremendous power. However, continuous inventions and conquests have also pushed mankind into an existential crisis. The global ecosystem is on the verge of collapse and false information is rampant. We are heading headlong into an era of artificial intelligence composed of new information networks that could destroy us. Why are humans so intelligent, but always prone to self-destruction? Why have we reached the brink of ecological and technological suicide? When inhuman intelligence threatens human survival, how can humans make wise choices? From oral stories, to writing, to artificial intelligence, "Beyond Homo Sapiens" tells how information networks have shaped us and our world through the long lens of history. It invites us to think about the complex relationships between information and truth, myth and bureaucracy, wisdom and power, and explores the key dilemmas that different social structures face when trying to build information networks. If we broaden our horizons and look at how human information networks have developed over the past few thousand years, we may be able to better understand what is happening today and in the future.