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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
I continue to love Harari’s writing style, this book raises lots of interesting and important philosophical questions about our future - also interesting to read from a post-covid perspective!
This being said, I definitely preferred Sapiens, this book felt a tad more repetitive and wasn’t as succinct for me.
This being said, I definitely preferred Sapiens, this book felt a tad more repetitive and wasn’t as succinct for me.
There was a lot of overlap between this book and Sapiens, but I'm completely okay with it because it was done so well.
4.5/5 - first of the Yuval books not to go into my favourites!
I gotta say – I'm a sucker for his writing, and this book went further than his factual history-heavy books (Sapiens & 21 Lessons) and leaned much more on philosophical aspects, which I love. Since the whole book was around the whole idea of where are we going from here, everything was an ethical/philosophical discussion about what we want our future to be and how we are shaping what is to come currently. Super interesting points that I had never thought before about our lives, another great read. The one thing that really took me out is that the first ~30/40% of the book was solely reprising what he had already gone in depth in his previous books – a good reminder and overview with different examples, but a bit too long imho.
Overall loved it! Felt denser than the other two, but just as informative, engaging, and thought-provoking. Can't wait to pick up Nexus next
“This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom – we cannot avoid being shaped by the past.”
I gotta say – I'm a sucker for his writing, and this book went further than his factual history-heavy books (Sapiens & 21 Lessons) and leaned much more on philosophical aspects, which I love. Since the whole book was around the whole idea of where are we going from here, everything was an ethical/philosophical discussion about what we want our future to be and how we are shaping what is to come currently. Super interesting points that I had never thought before about our lives, another great read. The one thing that really took me out is that the first ~30/40% of the book was solely reprising what he had already gone in depth in his previous books – a good reminder and overview with different examples, but a bit too long imho.
Overall loved it! Felt denser than the other two, but just as informative, engaging, and thought-provoking. Can't wait to pick up Nexus next
“This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom – we cannot avoid being shaped by the past.”
Un libro que te hace pensar bastante . Tiene muchas ideas interesantes que son para darles vueltas:
- Que pasara a los humanos cuando las inteligencias artificiales nos haga prescindibles economicamente.
- Que pasara a los humanos cuando drogas nos puedan mantener siempre contentos y sin ganas de cambiar.
Etc. Hay muchas preguntas interesantes.
Por supuesto el autor tiene algunas ideas y algunas respuestas. Pueden gustar mas o menos o pensar que son mas o menos adecaudas pero yo creo que el simple hecho de ponerlas ahi fuera y hacer esas preguntas es muy interesante y una gran lectura.
- Que pasara a los humanos cuando las inteligencias artificiales nos haga prescindibles economicamente.
- Que pasara a los humanos cuando drogas nos puedan mantener siempre contentos y sin ganas de cambiar.
Etc. Hay muchas preguntas interesantes.
Por supuesto el autor tiene algunas ideas y algunas respuestas. Pueden gustar mas o menos o pensar que son mas o menos adecaudas pero yo creo que el simple hecho de ponerlas ahi fuera y hacer esas preguntas es muy interesante y una gran lectura.
Какое-то дикое поппури. Ладно набор тем, даже векторы атаки скачут между пинкеровщиной и андерсеновщиной, с щепоткой Бострома (цитируется напрямую), и чёрт разберёт, кого ещё. Достаточно спорных/ничем не подтвержденных заявлений; атаки на либеральный гуманизм (или что-то, что Харари под этим определением понимает) как стержень книги... обложка зазывала, прямо скажем, исследовать совсем не это, но:
* Кто знает, соответствуй книга обложке, может, было б и ещё хуже.
* Я читал достаточно авторов, те же наборы исходных позиций куда более убедительно применявших не для атаки, а для защиты.
В целом не очень понимаю, кому и зачем это надо.
* Кто знает, соответствуй книга обложке, может, было б и ещё хуже.
* Я читал достаточно авторов, те же наборы исходных позиций куда более убедительно применявших не для атаки, а для защиты.
В целом не очень понимаю, кому и зачем это надо.
Fantastic ideas about where our species and society are headed. Incredible that the human lifespan might see a huge jump in our lifetime (ha). Also, the quest to make robots and algorithms behave more like humans has raised many awesome questions about what it means to be human, and whether that's valuable. Very thought-provoking!
Hmm idk if I believe it all but it sure was an interesting though and def not something I could come up with
Holy shit this book was bang average. I'll start off by being fair to it, the middle portions where the author delved into the historical relevance of modern societal structures was genuinely interesting and well-researched, I only wish I could say the same about the rest. Some of the topics Harari covers in this book are similar to things I'd expect to hear from a drunk uncle or one of those fake "woke" life coaches, the entire book reads like a shitty sci-fi script that never came into fruition. Harari's predictions for the future lacked any real evidence or nuance, which made them so difficult to believe in. At one part, I believe he cited the invention of viagra as a justification for his theory of immortality, there simply isn't a connection between the two. At another, he tried to impose that political ideologies can be considered as religions, that is an over-simplification of both ideologies and religions and it's simply not factual. All in all, the portions that were researched were good, the portions conjured from the author's last acid trip were trash, at least the writing was kinda interesting.
A great overview connecting the origins of humanity to the future perspectives without many hyperboles or extravagant scenarios. Brilliant work
informative
slow-paced