Manuel Lamela

“The tendency to create powerful things with unintended consequences started not with the invention of the steam engine or AI but with the invention of religion. Prophets and theologians have summoned powerful spirits that were supposed to bring love and joy but occasionally ended up flooding the world with blood.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“History isn’t the study of the past; it is the study of change. History teaches us what remains the same, what changes, and how things change.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“Contrary to what the naive view believes, Homo sapiens didn’t conquer the world because we are talented at turning information into an accurate map of reality. Rather, the secret of our success is that we are talented at using information to connect lots of individuals. Unfortunately, this ability often goes hand in hand with believing in lies, errors, and fantasies.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

“Silicon chips can create spies that never sleep, financiers that never forget, and despots that never die.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI