21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari
View on GoodreadsHarari's present-focused volume (after Sapiens on the past and Homo Deus on the future), tackling the immediate disruptions — AI, biotech, terrorism, immigration, post-truth, meaning — that liberal democracy isn't equipped to handle.
Core ideas
- The combined biotech-AI revolution will produce mass technological unemployment and the rise of a "useless class" — economically and politically irrelevant for the first time in history.
- Liberalism's narrative collapse leaves a vacuum being filled by religious revival and ethnic nationalism — not because they work, but because no rival story has stepped forward.
- Meaning isn't found, it's authored — and the technologies of the next century will make authoring it both more important and more contested.
Published2018
Pages372
ISBN9780525512172
ReadJul 2022
