“The world’s military forces initiate, fund and steer a large part of humanity’s scientific research and technological development.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“technology. Homo sapiens is an obsolete algorithm. After all, what’s the advantage of” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“twenty-first-century technology may enable external algorithms to ‘hack humanity’ and know me far better than I know myself.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We won’t be able to grasp the full implications of novel technologies such as artificial intelligence if we don’t know what minds… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The coming technological bonanza will probably make it feasible to feed and support these useless masses even without any effort from their… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
You take fantasies, which for thousands of years belonged to the religious realm - overcoming death or our merging with the universe… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If I don’t update my body’s anti-virus program regularly, I will wake up one day to discover that the millions of nano-robots… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“humans may be unable to do so. The coming technological bonanza will probably make it feasible to feed and support these useless… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
What I try to focus on is not to try to stop the march of technological progress. Instead, I try to run… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The willingness to admit ignorance has made modern science more dynamic, supple and inquisitive than any previous tradition of knowledge. This has… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“the ethical and political ideas of Locke, Rousseau and Jefferson. However, once the heretical scientific insights are translated into everyday technology, routine… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If scientific discoveries and technological developments split humankind into a mass of useless humans and a small elite of upgraded superhumans, or… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Precisely because technology is now moving so fast, and parliaments and dictators alike are overwhelmed by data they cannot process quickly enough,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Religions that lose touch with the technological realities of the day lose their ability even to understand the questions being asked.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Precisely because technology is now moving so fast, and parliaments and dictators alike are overwhelmed by data they cannot process quickly enough,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“However, in the twenty-first century the majority of both men and women might lose their military and economic value. Gone is the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The governmental tortoise cannot keep up with the technological hare. It is overwhelmed by data. The NSA may be spying on our… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Socialism, which was very up to date a hundred years ago, failed to keep up with the new technology. [...] If Marx… — 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
“The governmental tortoise cannot keep up with the technological hare.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Precisely because technology is now moving so fast, and parliaments and dictators alike are overwhelmed by data they cannot process quickly enough,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In the twenty-first century our personal data is probably the most valuable resource most humans still have to offer, and we are… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Technological progress has a very different agenda. It doesn’t want to listen to our inner voices. It wants to control them.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Science, industry and military technology intertwined only with the advent of the capitalist system and the Industrial Revolution. Once this relationship was… — 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
![“Socialism, which was very up to date a hundred years ago, failed to keep up with the new technology. [...] If Marx came back to life today, he would probably urge his few relating disciples to devote less time to reading Das Kapital and more time to studying the Internet and the human genome.” quote by Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/809/yuval-noah-harari-100_technology_socialism-which-was-very-up-to-date-a-hu_2335790.jpg)
