Yuval Noah Harari — "The 21st century will be defined by the merger of biotechnology and infotechnolo…"
The 21st century will be defined by the merger of biotechnology and infotechnology.
The 21st century will be defined by the merger of biotechnology and infotechnology.
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"The greatest challenge is to prevent a global digital dictatorship."
"The real question is not 'what do we want to become?', but 'what do we want to want?'"
"We are moving from a world of 'survival of the fittest' to 'survival of the data-rich'."
"We are creating a new type of human, a 'Homo Deus'."
"Humans are now hackable animals."
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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