Take a photo of a barcode or cover
bethpeninger 's review for:
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari
Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for this reader's copy. In exchange, I am providing an honest review.
My head hurts. In a good way. Harari's book tackled some topics I am pretty sure I didn't even realize existed and/or brought up topics that I am aware of but never would have thought about on my own. Of course, now that Harari has introduced them into my thinking life I am much more aware of those topics in my news feeds, etc. The read of this title is what I call a warm-up read for me. I'm going to need to read it again at some point so that my brain can really grab on. This read my brain was just trying to keep up. Some of his thoughts on the future of humankind and technology like AI were disquieting to me, either I'm extremely naive (which I'm not necessarily disputing) or I'm much more hopeful than Harari is about the humanity of humans. His chapters on God and Secularism were incredibly good and so interesting. Ending the book talking about meditation was an interesting way to wrap up this very heavy and somber look at where we are and where Yuval thinks we are headed. If I understood correctly, meditation is the way Harari remains hopeful in the midst of heaviness which is why he chose to end the book with it as well.
My head hurts. In a good way. Harari's book tackled some topics I am pretty sure I didn't even realize existed and/or brought up topics that I am aware of but never would have thought about on my own. Of course, now that Harari has introduced them into my thinking life I am much more aware of those topics in my news feeds, etc. The read of this title is what I call a warm-up read for me. I'm going to need to read it again at some point so that my brain can really grab on. This read my brain was just trying to keep up. Some of his thoughts on the future of humankind and technology like AI were disquieting to me, either I'm extremely naive (which I'm not necessarily disputing) or I'm much more hopeful than Harari is about the humanity of humans. His chapters on God and Secularism were incredibly good and so interesting. Ending the book talking about meditation was an interesting way to wrap up this very heavy and somber look at where we are and where Yuval thinks we are headed. If I understood correctly, meditation is the way Harari remains hopeful in the midst of heaviness which is why he chose to end the book with it as well.