Yuval Noah Harari — "The idea of a 'human being' is changing fundamentally."
The idea of a 'human being' is changing fundamentally.
The idea of a 'human being' is changing fundamentally.
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"We are on the verge of creating a new species: Homo deus."
"The most important skill in the 21st century will be the ability to deal with change."
"We are constantly upgrading ourselves, but we don't know what we want to upgrade ourselves into."
"Algorithms are going to know us better than we know ourselves."
"The greatest revolution will not be technological, but biological."
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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