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4.0 AVERAGE
4.0 AVERAGE
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Minor: Genocide, Homophobia, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Colonisation, Classism
The perspective is fascinating. Depressing, enlightening, frustrating, amazing!
This book offers a lot of interesting insights about current and future potentials in regards to AI, climate change, biotech and technological advances, etc. within the context of humanity, presently and historically. And it tackles topics in modern debates, like fake news and activist movements, through lenses like power, fear, and ethics.
Overall: It was well researched with clear and concise arguments, and I was completely absorbed in the text. It has definitely given me a lot to think about, and I think it's a great book to start a dialogue.
Overall: It was well researched with clear and concise arguments, and I was completely absorbed in the text. It has definitely given me a lot to think about, and I think it's a great book to start a dialogue.
He is uniquely capable of succinctly summarising complex concepts. I have probably not learned anything ground-breakingly new, nevertheless, it was very thought-provoking and captivating.
As always, Harari is an engaging writer with fascinating ideas and an outlook on the world that meshes well with mine. This book, though, felt largely like a repeat of what was already covered in Sapiens and Homo Deus. If you haven’t read those, start there instead.
I really liked Harari's first book, "Sapiens", but then I was very disappointed with the 2nd book, "Homo Deus", so I did not really know what to expect from this one. It looked like we were on the well known path where an author is unexpectedly super successful with a first book, so the publisher pushes him to write down anything to publish a follow up. "Homo Deus" was clearly the work of a weekend under pressure of delivery to the publisher. "21 Lessons..." is the obvious 3rd phase of this progression, when the 2nd book is successful enough...publisher screams, "What other words do you have?" This book read like what it is, a compilation of 21 articles and essays from the past. On the bright side, many were written when the author had little pressure and are quite good. Some are obviously recently generated filler. Overall, I enjoyed most of the book and would recommend it to people who are into this sort of thing.
Technology > Politics > Apocalypse > What we don't know and How we could surf it all.
Topics spread from AI, Economics, Politics, History, Philosophy and what not.
The lesson on 'Meaning' was particularly profound.
Enjoyed reading it and closes my year with it.
Topics spread from AI, Economics, Politics, History, Philosophy and what not.
The lesson on 'Meaning' was particularly profound.
Enjoyed reading it and closes my year with it.
Loved it. All of his books read like the best part of a dinner party where you get pulled into these rich intellectual discussions. Some chapters really rocked my world more than others but all in all fantastic overview and dialogue with the current global social emotional climate.