Homo sapiens, you and me, we are basically the same as people 10,000 years ago. The next revolution will change that. — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humanity’s search for an easier life released immense forces of change that transformed the world in ways nobody envisioned or wanted.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“For example, the megafauna of New Zealand – which had weathered the alleged ‘climate change’ of c.45,000 years ago without a scratch… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Then why didn’t humans abandon farming when the plan backfired? Partly because it took generations for the small changes to accumulate and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The notion of superhumans is using bioengineering and artificial intelligence to upgrade human abilities. If they use the power to change themselves,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Climate change may be far beyond the concerns of people in the midst of a life-and-death emergency, but it might eventually make… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
All the major problems of the world today are global in essence, and they cannot be solved unless through some kind of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We are all living together on a single planet, which is threatened by our own actions. And if you don't have some… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It was the most important transformation of the Australian ecosystem for millions of years. Was it all the fault of Homo sapiens?… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The Cognitive Revolution that turned Homo sapiens from an insignificant ape into the master of the world did not require any noticeable… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can conquer oil fields through war, you cannot acquire knowledge that way.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. The advent of cooking enabled… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas liberalism merged with the milder versions of nationalism to protect the unique experiences of each human community, evolutionary humanists such as Hitler identified… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Corporations, money and nations exist only in our imagination. We invented them to serve us; why do we find ourselves sacrificing our lives in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Small children in affluent societies often dislike showering, and it takes them years of education and parental discipline to adopt this supposedly attractive custom.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Ever more scholars see cultures as a kind of mental infection or parasite, with humans as its unwitting host. Organic parasites, such as viruses,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Soviet Communism was a fanatical and missionary religion. A devout Communist could not be a Christian or a Buddhist, and was expected to spread… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
