21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

by Yuval Noah Harari

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After Sapiens on the past and Homo Deus on the future, Yuval Noah Harari turns to the present you're living in. His 21 essays meet a moment when liberalism's story is faltering just as AI and biotechnology, climate change, nationalism and post-truth politics raise problems no ready ideology answers.

Core ideas
  • Three stories, one left: Fascism lost in World War II, communism collapsed by the end of the 1980s, and liberalism, the survivor, is now under challenge.
  • Data as power: Information technology and biotechnology together threaten mass unemployment and turn data into a new source of power.
  • Know your own mind: Stories shape how you see the world and how you vote, and the closing chapters argue for investing in understanding the mind, through meditation, alongside technology.
Published2018
Pages372
ISBN9780525512172
ReadJul 2022

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