Humans are extremely good in acquiring new power, but they are not very good in translating this power into greater happiness, which… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We are more powerful than ever before, but have very little idea what to do with all that power. Worse still, humans… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Techno-humanism aims to amplify the power of humans, creating cyborgs and connecting humans to computers, but it still sees human interests and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
As algorithms push humans out of the job market, wealth and power might become concentrated in the hands of the tiny elite… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, until about 1850, you see humans accumulating more and more power by the invention of new technologies and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not too dangerous. If you combine it with power, then this is a toxic mix. — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, we have gained the power to control the world outside us but not to control the world inside.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
People already have bionic arms and legs that work by the power of thought. And we increasingly outsource mental and communicative activities… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“a dramatic increase in the collective power and ostensible success of our species went hand in hand with much individual suffering.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“power relations that transformed figments of imagination into cruel – and very real – social structures.” — 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
As a historian, I'm sceptical about conspiracy theories because the world is far too complicated to be managed by a few billionaires… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies and human authority was legitimised by humanist ideologies, so high-tech gurus and Silicon… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Modernity is a deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant… — 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
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