Yuval Noah Harari — "Humans are now hackable animals. We can hack human beings on a massive scale."
Humans are now hackable animals. We can hack human beings on a massive scale.
Humans are now hackable animals. We can hack human beings on a massive scale.
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"The most important skill in the 21st century will be the ability to deal with change."
"We are not just Homo sapiens, we are Homo data."
"The greatest challenge for humans is to know themselves."
"The greatest danger to humanity is not AI, but human stupidity."
"We have replaced the ancient gods with the new gods of data and algorithms."
Israeli historian whose Sapiens (2011) and Homo Deus (2015) reframed big history for a mass audience and sold tens of millions of copies. Closely associated with Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel author and Harari's clearest intellectual ancestor) and Steven Pinker (data-driven optimist contemporary). For an intellectual contrast, see Jordan Peterson, Canadian psychologist and Maps of Meaning author — Peterson's Maps of Meaning argues that religious-mythological structure is the load-bearing architecture of human meaning — exactly the framing Harari's 'religion as useful fiction' thesis treats as historically transitory. The two are the largest-platform popular intellectuals of the 2010s with opposite views on whether religion encodes deep truth.
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