His most famous writings include Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus, and the 21 Lessons for the 21 st Century in which the writer tries to answer philosophical questions about human happiness, suffering, pain, and well-being. Yuval Yuval Noah Harari, a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is considered to be an influential historian of our time. For this, humans have to give up on their selfish and narrow approaches and think of matters in the bigger perspective to view things in totality and deal with the problems on a global scale for which individual nations cannot do much.įor making humans of the 21 st Century think for themselves, the author has focused more on the immediate political, social, economic, and technological issues while adopting a very critical, skeptical, and secular theoretical lens. The book gives the idea of getting a clear perspective of what is happening in the world at times of huge amounts of irrelevant and distracting information. 21 Lessons for the 21 st Century builds on the ideas of technological and informational revolutions discussed in great detail in an earlier book of the writer titled “Homo Deus” here, unlike the previous book, the author has written short chapters on 21 topics and related it to the upcoming global problems that are rising because of the nexus between info-tech and biotech industries.
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