Lesson 3 dives deep into liberty, whether what we have today is pure or fabricated liberty, and what will happen with our liberty once AI takes over. Lesson 2 is about work, specifically analysing the threat of work being replaced by AI. It covers all the different countries adopting different political systems and all the geopolitics that come with it. Lesson 1 evolve around the evolution of the 3 stories of fascism, communism, and liberalism, and how the world evolved from having all 3 in 1938, to 2 in 1968 (with fascism virtually disappeared), to only 1 in 1998 (with communism already collapsed), and zero in 2018 (when the book was written). He then reframe them into 21 lessons in 21 chapters. True to Harari’s style, in this book he takes some current affairs key ideas and scale them wide to the scope of global macro and everything in it. Hence, in a way this book is like Harari’s 2nd attempt to complete the incomplete Homo Deus, or, dare I say it, with rhyming pun intended, Homo Deus part deux. Now Yuval Noah Harari’s 3rd book, 21 lessons for the 21st century, feels more like a summary from the previous 2 books, with the best frame of thoughts of Sapiens are filled with additional commentary and analysis for the prediction onto the future. Sapiens is one of my top favourite books of all time, while Homo Deus was generally disappointing for me.
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