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A review by literaryjunarin
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
informative
medium-paced
3.75
"Great power thus acts like a black hole that warps the very space around it. The closer you get, the more twisted everything becomes."
In this book, he listed this century's present issues that the world needs to worry about and work on immediately.
I learned a lot, about the current issues of Artificial Intelligence (mind you, there's a lot of his predictions that I disagree about), other countries' politics, religion, war, immigration, and education.
Some are a bit exaggerated assumptions of the future, some theories are weak as well, but still, they made me think. And I super agree with his take on education.
The topics about nationalism and religion are interesting to me. I had a lot of "oh really?" moments while reading and I actually wrote questions on the book itself. I like doing that because it feels like I was talking to the author. 😅
However, some points are quite droll though, like this one, "It would be ridiculous to list the theory of relativity as a Jewish contribution to humankind, just as it would be ridiculous to credit Christianity with the theory of evolution.". I mean who thinks this way?
After finishing the book, I realized there are actually not many lessons but more questions.
In this book, he listed this century's present issues that the world needs to worry about and work on immediately.
I learned a lot, about the current issues of Artificial Intelligence (mind you, there's a lot of his predictions that I disagree about), other countries' politics, religion, war, immigration, and education.
Some are a bit exaggerated assumptions of the future, some theories are weak as well, but still, they made me think. And I super agree with his take on education.
The topics about nationalism and religion are interesting to me. I had a lot of "oh really?" moments while reading and I actually wrote questions on the book itself. I like doing that because it feels like I was talking to the author. 😅
However, some points are quite droll though, like this one, "It would be ridiculous to list the theory of relativity as a Jewish contribution to humankind, just as it would be ridiculous to credit Christianity with the theory of evolution.". I mean who thinks this way?
After finishing the book, I realized there are actually not many lessons but more questions.