![]() Originally published in Hebrew in 2011, the book was translated into English three years later and became an international bestseller. Religions, nations and money, Harari argues, are all human fictions that have enabled collaboration and organisation on a massive scale. The irony, perhaps, is that one of the book’s warnings is that we are in danger of becoming an elite-dominated global society.Īt the centre of the book is the contention that what made Homo sapiens the most successful human being, supplanting rivals such as Neanderthals, was our ability to believe in shared fictions. Barack Obama and Bill Gates have undergone that experience, as have many others in the Davos crowd and Silicon Valley. It’s one of those books that can’t help but make you feel smarter for having read it. People shouldn’t be focused on the question of how to stop technological progress because this is impossible Perhaps, but it is an intellectual joy to be swept along. Although Sapiens has been widely and loudly praised, some critics have suggested that it is too sweeping. It is a dazzlingly bold introduction, which the remainder of the book lives up to on almost every page. ![]()
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