Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari (born 24 February 1976) is an Israeli historian and a tenured professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of the international bestsellers Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2014) and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2015). His writings are preoccupied with concepts of free will, consciousness and definitions of intelligence.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Seventy thousand years ago, organisms from the species Homo sapiens emerged on the scene. The study of their development and activities is called history. In his ambitious study, Yuval Noah Harari explains that human history has been propelled forward by three revolutions: the Cognitive Revolution, the Agricultural Revolution, and the Scientific Revolution. Humans have shown their capacity for profoundly impacting their environment, and each of the three revolutionary thresholds that we have crossed increased this capacity. Humankind ignores its powerful and often destructive tendencies at its own peril and the planet’s, but there is still reason to hope for a better tomorrow. Time will tell which path humanity will take.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The new century has been a dizzying spectacle so far, and it shows no signs of slowing down. Harari assesses humanity’s current predicament, discussing everything from AI and social media to evolving religions and updated forms of justice and government. This book raises questions and makes suggestions about how humanity might continue to find its way forward.
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari offers a vision of humanity’s future that is radically different from its past by just about every conceivable metric. He argues that biology and information technologies are growing and blending so quickly that we are likely to see the emergence of a new caste of upgraded humans, and that the enhancements could be significant enough to warrant labeling them a new species: Homo deus. Harari maps out the pathways that have led us to this point, and shows how Homo deus will emerge if present trends continue.
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