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Yuval Noah Harari

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

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  • Ivanцитирует6 лет назад
    In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power.
  • Nurlan Süleymanovцитирует5 лет назад
    Humans have bodies. During the last century technology has been distancing us from our bodies. We have been losing our ability to pay attention to what we smell and taste. Instead we are absorbed in our smartphones and computers. We are more interested in what is happening in cyberspace than in what is happening down the street.
  • Shubhankar Zingreцитирует2 года назад
    War spreads ideas, technologies and people far more quickly than commerce.
  • Филипп Мирзовцитирует5 лет назад
    If you feel like running down the street crying ‘The apocalypse is upon us!’, try telling yourself ‘No, it’s not that. Truth is, I just don’t understand what’s going on in the world.’
  • mymoiaцитирует5 лет назад
    we might soon reach a point when no human can make sense of finance any more.
  • Nurlan Süleymanovцитирует5 лет назад
    The less political violence in a particular state, the greater the public shock at an act of terrorism. Killing a few people in Belgium draws far more attention than killing hundreds in Nigeria or Iraq. Paradoxically, then, the very success of modern states in preventing political violence makes them particularly vulnerable to terrorism.
  • Nurlan Süleymanovцитирует5 лет назад
    Holy scriptures may have been relevant in the Middle Ages, but how can they guide us in the era of artificial intelligence, bioengineering, global warming and cyberwarfare?
  • Oleg Malakhovцитирует5 лет назад
    Winston Churchill famously said that democracy is the worst political system in the world, except for all the others
  • Nurlan Süleymanovцитирует5 лет назад
    If something exciting happens, the gut instinct of Facebook users is to pull out their smartphones, take a picture, post it online, and wait for the ‘likes’. In the process they barely notice what they themselves feel. Indeed, what they feel is increasingly determined by the online reactions
  • Nurlan Süleymanovцитирует5 лет назад
    Already today, the richest 1 per cent owns half the world’s wealth. Even more alarmingly, the richest hundred people together own more than the poorest 4 billion.1
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