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“History isn’t a single narrative, but thousands of alternative narratives. Whenever we choose to tell one, we are also choosing to silence others. Human”
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
“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
“People are usually afraid of change because they fear the unknown. But the single greatest constant of history is that everything changes.”
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
“Those who wake...do not regret the dream.”
― The Fortunate Fall
― The Fortunate Fall
“This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom – we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom is better than none.”
― Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Blue Sam’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Blue Sam’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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