Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari, 2011
A historian retells the whole human story as one argument: that we conquered the world by learning to believe in things that aren't there.
Yuval Noah Harari
Feels like curiosity, power and unease.
Start with Sapiens.
Harari wrote the book after a colleague suggested his undergraduate world-history lectures might make a course. It began in Hebrew in 2011 and appeared in English in 2014.
The thing you can't live without was once optional.
One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally, they reach a point where they can’t live without it. Books by Yuval Noah Harari
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari, 2016
Harari turns from the history of Homo sapiens to its next century: algorithms, data and the godlike powers we are about to invent.
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