Harari 2018 Jonathan Cape
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Harari YN (2018) Jonathan Cape
Abstract: In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power. In theory, anybody can join the debate about the future of humanity, but it is so hard to maintain a clear vision. Frequently, we don't even notice that a debate is going on, or what the key questions are. .. If the future of humanity is decided in your absence, because you are too busy feeding and clothing your kids - you and they will not be exempt from the consequences. This is very unfair; but who said history was fair? As a historian, I cannot give people food or clothes - but I can try and offer some clarity, thereby helping to level the global playing field.
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- Reality is composed of many threads.
- Big data algorithms might create digital dictatorships in which all power is concentrated in the hands of a tiny elite while most poeple suffer not from exploitation, but from something far worse - irrelevance.
- Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers or equations, and the simpler the story, the better.
