Quotes from Yuval Noah Harari

In 2010 only 2 per cent of Americans worked in agriculture and 20 per cent worked in industry, while 78 per cent worked as teachers, doctors, webpage designers and so forth. When mindless algorithms are able to teach, diagnose and design better than humans, what will we do?

As we mentioned in the previous chapter, scientific insights into the way our brains and bodies work suggest that our feelings are not some uniquely human spiritual quality, and they do not reflect any kind of 'free will'. Rather, feelings are biochemical mechanisms that all mammals and birds use in order to quickly calculate probabilities of survival and reproduction. Feelings aren't based on intuition, inspiration or freedom they are based on calculation.

De ahí que, paradójicamente, a medida que acumulamos más datos y aumentamos la potencia de nuestros ordenadores, los acontecimientos se tornan más erráticos e inesperados.

The Stone Age should more accurately be called the Wood Age, because most of the tools used by ancient hunter-gatherers were made of wood. Any

Baraj in?a edip nehirlerin ak???n? durdurmay? biliyorduk ama bedensel ya?lanma nas?l durdurulur bilmiyorduk.

Na verdade, os sentimentos são mecanismos bioquímicos que todos os mamíferos e aves usam para calcular rapidamente a probabilidade de sobrevivência e reprodução. Os sentimentos não têm por base a intuição, a inspiração ou a liberdade – baseiam-se em cálculos.

2016 the world is dominated by the liberal package of individualism, human rights, democracy and the free market. Yet twenty-first-

99 per cent of our decisions – including the most important life choices concerning spouses, careers and habitats – are made by the highly refined algorithms we call sensations, emotions and desires.18

authentic realities can be manipulated by algorithms and TV cameras but rather that authenticity is a myth.

Como bomberos en un mundo sin fuego, en el siglo XXI la humanidad necesita plantearse una pregunta sin precedentes: ¿qué vamos a hacer con nosotros?

Una de las pocas leyes rigurosas de la historia

no debería ser ninguna sorpresa que millones de piadosos cristianos, musulmanes y judíos consigan creer a la vez en un Dios omnipotente y en un Diablo independiente.

Myths continue to dominate humankind, and science only makes these myths stronger. Instead of destroying the intersubjective reality, science will enable it to control the objective and subjective realities more completely than ever before.

El sistema económico me presiona para que expanda y diversifique mi cartera de valores, pero me da cero incentivos para expandir y diversificar mi compasión.

If your country is torn apart by war, if the economy is in crisis and if health care is non-existent, you are likely to be miserable.

Más de un siglo después de que Nietzsche afirmara que Dios había muerto, parece que Dios ha vuelto.

A Osama bin Laden, a pesar de todo su odio a la cultura estadounidense, la religión estadounidense y la política estadounidense, le encantaban los dólares estadounidenses. ¿Cómo consiguió triunfar el dinero donde dioses y reyes fracasaron?

Sapiens by contrast is more like a banana republic dictator.

The willingness to admit ignorance has made modern science more dynamic, supple and inquisitive than any previous tradition of knowledge.

La red comercial global de hoy en día se basa en nuestra confianza en entidades ficticias como el dinero, los bancos y las corporaciones

In medieval Europe, logic, grammar and rhetoric formed the educational core, while the teaching of mathematics seldom went beyond simple arithmetic and geometry. Nobody studied statistics. The undisputed monarch of all sciences was theology.

The mammoths of Wrangel continued to prosper for a few more millennia, then suddenly disappeared about 4,000 years ago, just when the first humans reached the island. Were the Australian extinction an isolated event, we could grant humans the benefit of the doubt. But the historical record makes Homo sapiens look like an ecological serial killer.

First, capitalism has created a world that nobody but a capitalist is capable of running. The only serious attempt to manage the world differently – Communism – was so much worse in almost every conceivable way that nobody has the stomach to try again.

A igualdade só pode ser assegurada se forem diminuídas as liberdades daqueles que estão em melhores condições. Garantir que cada indivíduo seja livre para fazer o que desejar inevitavelmente compromete a igualdade.