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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
dark
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Visions of a new human species, sometimes feels sad for the current generation. Makes me worry a bit about the future. What we regard as great may not be great afterall. But can show up opportunities for those who are looking for it.
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Took me forever to read with classes and finals and stuff. All the times I read it and spaced out certainly didn’t help!! BUT I loved it. I’m a huge fan of Dr. Harari and while this book is a lot of possibilities and questions I personally love it. It always made me ponder about what makes human special and how dismantling those beliefs could change our society!!
Bloody brilliant. I love the way Harari gets me to think differently about things. I have a review but I don’t have time to finish it now. I mean there is a lot to contemplate. This book is a warning of the kind of future we could be headed for and ends with some advice on how we can sift through the junk pile of information that assaults us these days (a version of censorship, Harari claims) and focus on what really matters in the short-medium term, decades-long and overarching grand views of the future.
I’ll be back in time to complete my review. In the meantime, just read it. Or listen to it as I did.
I’ll be back in time to complete my review. In the meantime, just read it. Or listen to it as I did.
Excelente livro sobre ciência, política, religião e história.
Em alguns momentos o autor tem algumas ideias um tanto exageradas, mas isso não chega a comprometer a qualidade do livro.
Em alguns momentos o autor tem algumas ideias um tanto exageradas, mas isso não chega a comprometer a qualidade do livro.
Broad and sweeping generalizations, jumping to conclusions, logical fallacies... The list can go on and on. There are some interesting ideas, but overall it feels like it was written to shock and astound the reader instead of providing him with a rational analysis.
Un buen análisis sobre lo que podría depararnos el futuro, se nota en el autor una gran formación intelectual.
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
i was gifted this book years ago, alongside his predecessor "sapiens." for some reason, i kept putting off reading this. was i too scared? did the subject matter bore me? finally, i said enough is enough, and i picked it up. and now, being done, i have many thoughts going around my head. on the positives, there were aspects of this book i loved. primarily, harari's writing really stood out to me. he writes in a way that makes difficult subject matter easy to understand and is accessible and interesting! i also found incredibly interesting his focus on human nature and history rather than entirely on the future. because it's true, we don't really know what the future holds, but by looking at past trends, values, and experiences with current and projected ones, we can maybe create somewhat a picture. the negatives i found were not necessarily in the content or it's quality but because i read it almost ten years after it was published. essentially, in the future he was writing about. his commentary on things like political situations in the world (ie dictatorships, wars, etc) are realities many are currently facing, and his predictions on ai came more than 15 years before he said. while i understand he is a historian (which provided an interesting outlook on a book about the future) it made parts of it less appealing because it's reality instead of potentiality. overall though it was a worthwhile read, even if i did not receive the intended punch after reading it a decade after it's release