“In 2012 about 56 million people died throughout the world; 620,000 of them died due to human violence (war killed 120,000 people, and crime killed another 500,000). In contrast, 800,000 committed suicide, and 1.5 million died of diabetes. Sugar is now more dangerous than gunpowder.”
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
“One of the greatest fictions of all is to deny the complexity of the world and think in absolute terms:”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“The politicians and the experts, who possess neither audacity nor imagination, reject every radical solution. They always prefer little solutions, tactical or rigged, compromises that please an electorate with cold feet, always respecting the status quo.”
― Convergence of Catastrophes
― Convergence of Catastrophes
“In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. [...] In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore.”
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
“Yet in truth the lives of most people have meaning only within the network of stories they tell one another.”
― Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
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