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3.99 AVERAGE
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
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Quirky,intelligent and utterly enthralling in its critiques and deconstruction of human dogma both new and old. The book felt like a conversation with a smarter and more experienced friend that not only captures the gamut of human thought of the past but also lays an elaborate way forward. Loved the book even more than “Sapiens” and that is saying a lot.
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Written in 2015 and 10 years on even the first chapter couldn’t have predicted what was coming. Largely inaccurate unfortunately to the world we’re living in today, proclaiming humanity is over the worst of war and plague, and yet we had a global pandemic and many wars across the world.
Not as consistently good as Sapiens, but definitely full of interesting opinions that are worth considering.
informative
reflective
slow-paced