Yuval Noah Harari

21 lessons for the 21st century

A big-picture book about the main challenges of the modern world, especially AI, politics, nationalism, religion, misinformation, education, and how humans can stay clear-thinking and grounded in the 21st century.

  • Disillusionment (political)
  • Work will change drastically if AI will understand human emotions (hormones release etc)
  • AI could be better at creative tasks
  • Good if algorithms can rule world? (Algorithmic discrimination)
  • Technology made it easier to talk with people thousands kms aways but harder with ppl beside you
  • Nationalism?
  • Religion debate
  • Immigration vs Culturists
  • Terrorism is to make strong party hurt themselves by creating fear and letting them overreact
  • Present war is not lucrative (but Putin still invaded Ukraine)
  • Humility is natural
  • Education, critical thinking might become more important
  • Meditation is good