#history #power #change [[Nexus -- A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI]] -- > History isn’t the study of the past; it is the study of change. History teaches us what remains the same, what changes, and how things change. > History is not deterministic, and the future will be shaped by the choices we all make in coming years. The whole point of writing this book is that by making informed choices, we can prevent the worst outcomes. If we > cannot change the future, why waste time discussing it? Perhaps, though, we have more choices available to us. One of the chief lessons of history is that many of the things that we consider natural and eternal are, in fact, man-made and mutable. The only constant of history is change.