If only as an intellectual entrepreneur, then, Harari is clearly doing something right.įramed as a book of ‘lessons’, his new work seems obviously inspired by such bestsellers as Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life. Indeed, my review copy of his new book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, comes with complimentary words from Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Lily Cole, Jarvis Cocker and Kazuo Ishiguro. Five years later he did it again with Homo Deus, a ‘brief history of tomorrow’, which predicted that mankind’s reign over the earth will soon come to an end as we are superseded by ‘non-conscious but highly intelligent algorithms’.īoth won admiring notices from some tough critics, so Harari is clearly no fool. Then, almost out of nowhere, he published Sapiens, which told the story of mankind’s entire biological and civilizational history in fewer than five hundred pages and became a colossal worldwide bestseller. Seven years ago, Yuval Noah Harari was a little-known lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specialising in world, medieval and military history.
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