![]() Especially as technology gets better at understanding humans, you might increasingly find yourself serving it, instead of it serving you. But if you don’t know what you want in life, it will be all too easy for technology to shape your aims for you and take control of your life. If you know what you want in life, technology can help you get it. ![]() How can it remain relevant to a world of cyborgs and networked algorithms?” The liberal story was the story of ordinary people. Yuval Noah Harari, author of the best-selling books Sapiens and Homo Deus, is a big fan of science fiction, and includes an entire chapter about it in his new book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018) is a hard-hitting investigation of civilizations most pertinent challenges. Lots of mysterious words are bandied around excitedly in TED talks, government think tanks and hi-tech conferences – globalisation, blockchain, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, machine learning – and common people may well suspect that none of these words are about them. ![]() “In 2018 the common person feels increasingly irrelevant. Review of 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, by Yuval Noah Harari. “Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers or equations, and the simpler the story, the better.” Yuval Noah Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a Banal and Risible Self-Help Book. ![]()
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