For example, the author discusses the merging of technology and medicine on our attempt to control life and become Gods and the impacts of automation in society. Homo Deus – A History of Tomorrow (2017)īrief description: After the success of Sapiens, Yuval launched “Homo Deus” to look into the future of humankind and cover truly exciting topics. By reading it, you will review our cognitive revolution, the development of systems of beliefs, religion, democracy, states, wars and much more.Ģ. Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind (2015)īrief description: As the tile suggests, “ Sapiens” provides an incredible overview of humankind. His most recent publication, for example, was reviewed by Bill Gates.ġ. Result? He quickly developed an immense reader base, including the likes of tech leaders such as Marc Zuckerberg. Meanwhile his writing style is provocative, funny and controversial. Yuval has a rare talent of conveying and explaining complex and long historical events in a succinct way. His main research interests include world history, medieval history and military history and currently he is a lecturer at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Yuval was born in Israel and received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2002. So regardless if you are a management student or not, at bachelor or PhD level, I could not recommend more for you to follow Yuval’s work. His insights on the possible impacts of artificial intelligence in society, the consequences of universal basic income and the attempts of humans to become immortal, for example, are certainly eye opening. Since then, I have recurrently recommended his books to my students, modified my consumer behavior class material to include insights from his publications and even gifted friends and family with some of his titles.Īnd why should you as a student follow him too?ĭespite being a historian, Yuval also reflects about the future. Days later I ordered one of this publications and quickly became an immense fan of his work. I first was aware of his work years ago through a recommendation of a friend. Yuval Noah Harari is certainly one the authors that has most attracted my attention in recent times.
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