![]() ![]() ![]() In 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, however, Harari shines spotlights on specific areas, at times irradiating them with a kind of hope that human skills will solve human problems, and at times quietly apocalyptic about our habits of self-destruction, and indeed destruction generally. ![]() Those first two instalments on the human condition, our past and possible future, how we got here and where we might be going, were huge panoramas. It was followed by Homo Deus (2015, published in English the following year) and the apocalyptic – or possibly not – possibilities opened up by the expansions of technology. Yes, we humans are a blip, and there were many suggestions as to why we are animals, yet so peculiarly and uniquely destructive in a way no animals ever were before us of our habitats – and ourselves. It is a provocative, stimulating and original synthesis of, well, us and our many millennia on this earth, which of course is still only a moment in the planet’s history. ![]()
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