Yuval Noah Harari Collection 3 Books Set (Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century) by Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari Collection 3 Books Set (Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century) Reviews

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  Narges

  I have read each of them more than 2 times and each time I was left in awe. They are all very mind-stimulating and well-written. Harari is a wizard!
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  Medini Kajarekar

  November 2019. That was when I began my journey with this series, and exactly an year later, it has come to an end. It is one of the best trilogies I have come across ever ever ever!
  
  After reading Sapiens, I was completely mesmerized by the way it was written & was automatically drawn towards the rest. 'Sapiens' gave a detailed account of evolution of humanity on this planet, while 'Homo Deus' talks majorly about the next stage of evolution. And since we are keeping one foot in the past with another in future, Harari brings us back to find a perfect balance in the present with '21 lessons'!
  
  @yuval_noah_harari has lucidly explained the entire humanity with his wondrous storytelling, but there is so much information on every single page, I had to slow down my pace & take time to digest it all before consuming more. Although there is an overlap between the books, Harari has provided his golden touch for linking this trilogy. These books are so incredibly insightful that they must be read ATLEAST once in a lifetime!
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  Carl R.

  I couldn't find a way to separate these books from one another, so be warned that I've included here only Homo Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind. Until this moment I had no knowledge of the existence of the others, so maybe I'll go on to them in the future. In the meantime. . .
  
  Between my previous reading of The Invention of Yesterday, A 50,00 Year of Human Culture by Tamim Ansary, I should be completely versed on the entirety of human affairs from our beginnings and beyond. I guess I could quit reading altogether, but I’m far too addicted for that and well beyond the help of any program 12 steps or 12,000.
  
  What’s most remarkable to me about Sapiens is the manner and extent in which Harari melds scientific and biological evidence with sociological and cultural. We go back to pre-neanderthal times (100,000 years ago and more) when probably several different editions of our species were roaming the earth. Whether and how they met, intermarried, or otherwise communicated with one another is speculative, but Harari’s point is that we can’t buy into the linear progression from ape-neanderthal-homo sapiens (means “wise man,” by the way. Some joke, that.) that most early textbooks imagined.
  
  Rather, we somehow outran, outdueled, outlived our ancestors despite our smaller brains and inferior muscle mass. How? We outsmarted them, and we were better able to work cooperatively. In so doing, we wiped out the larger species of every other animal group we encountered as we migrated from east to west and north to south. [That doesn’t include dinosaurs, of course, who came a few tens of millions of years earlier.]
  
  Why are there no more sabertooth tigers or mammoths, or giant kangaroos or a host of other creatures whose bones archeologists have excavated? They couldn’t reproduce fast enough or in sufficient numbers to keep up with the rate at which we slaughtered them. And all this without the aid of a single elephant gun. Thus did we dominate our earth.
  
  But Harari doesn’t stop there. What’s the next stage? Obviously AI, where our own inventions will produce “fundamental transformations in human consciousness and identity.” And with the possibility of replacing our biological parts with mechanical and electronic ones, we maybe could become, not immortal, but as he terms it “amortal”. Beings whose longevity will extend far beyond anything we’ve been able to achieve so far.
  
  Between you and me I’m not enough of a “Homo Sapien” to think that would be a good thing. But maybe I’m just in a sort of neanderthal stage and can’t appreciate the possibilities.
  
  
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  Timothy Rynders

  Most impactful books I've read in awhile. Really helps you steep deep with our species history and where we just might be headed (gulp). I found a lot of mystery and grace in his writing about what it means to be a homo sapien, and i appreciated that. Apparently some find these books terribly depressing. I'd wager that's from the category of people who don't think our poop stinks as much as other animals.
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  Susan Ross

  what a mind. listen to his interviews
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  Lyle Ten Crows Fogg

  text book quality in a novel quality pace
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  Shubham Upadhyay

  The absolute.
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  Jitendra

  MUST READ COLLECTION for 21st century Minds
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  Jorge Brancal Bulha

  Obrigatório
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  Mahmoud Abdolkhalek

  Worth reading.
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  Furkan

  Homo Sapiens ile başlayan varlığımız; Homo Deus'a ulaşmaya çalıştığı bu yolculukta neler yaşadığını ve buradan aldığımız ilhamla neler yaşayabileceğini okuyacağımız muhteşem seri.
  
  Yazarın bazı konulara getirdiği yeni bakış açıları ve kavramları ilk başta anlamak; daha sonra sindirmek ve en sonunda kabul etmek ile reddetmek arasında gidip gelmek eşsiz bir okuma serüveni sunuyor bizlere.
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  Dina

  Worth reading
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  Gyula Uszkai

  One of the best reads. Highly recommend to everyone, but you need to approach it with open mind.