“Anton Chekhov famously said that a gun appearing in the first act of a play will inevitably be fired in the third. Throughout”
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
“Medieval crusaders believed that God and heaven provided their lives with meaning; modern liberals believe that individual free choices provide life with meaning. They are all equally delusional.”
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
“Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, Sapiens have thus been living in a dual reality. On the one hand, the objective reality of rivers, trees and lions; and on the other hand, the imagined reality of gods, nations and corporations. As time went by, the imagined reality became ever more powerful, so that today the very survival of rivers, trees and lions depends on the grace of imagined entities such as the United States and Google.”
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“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
“Soon, books will read you while you are reading them.”
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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