Yuval Noah Harari — "The human species is about to be fundamentally changed, not just by technology, …"
The human species is about to be fundamentally changed, not just by technology, but by our own choices.
The human species is about to be fundamentally changed, not just by technology, but by our own choices.
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"We are creating a global data-processing system, and humans are its chips."
"Free will is a myth."
"The greatest danger is not that we will be controlled by machines, but that we will become machines."
"The most important question in the world is how to prevent data dictatorships."
"We are moving from a world where God is watching us to a world where algorithms are watching us."
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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