Books and podcasts about history are surging in popularity, making ...
History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
During the twenty-first century the border between history and biology is likely to blur not because we will discover biological explanations for historical events, but rather because ideological fictions will rewrite DNA strands; political and economic interests will redesign the climate; and the geography of mountains and rivers will give way to
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
In fact, the people who knew the period best – those alive at the time – were the most clueless of all. For the average Roman in Constantine’s time, the future was a fog. It is an iron rule of history that what looks inevitable in hindsight was far from obvious at the time. Today is no different. Are we out of the global economic crisis, or is the
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.