21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Great book and strongly recommended. This book is the third in the series of Yuval Noah Harari, after Sapiens and Homo Deus. Within Sapiens Harari covers the history of humanity and how we get here in nutshell, in Homo Deus he try to predict where we are heading in future and within 21st Lessons of 21st Century he mainly focus on current time.

Harari within this book cover so much ground which caused some criticism. However in my eyes, this book is one of a kind despite of brief and incomplete coverage on serval topics. No doubt each chapter could cover libraries of books and yet he managed to summaries everything in one book. He elaborate further within this era the real art is reduce the noise and be selective of overabundance of data rather than get lost in the details.

Harari within the introduction of the book reveal that he could go for self-censorship or speak his mind, he decided to go for the latter and request the reader to study this book with open mind. People that cannot or do not want to question some topics such as belief, faith and religion might not be able to hear the message Harari what to convey.

Harari tried to make this book an eye opener and yet didn't provide crystal clear answers; since there are none. He bring up the fact always questions that can't be answered is better that the answers which cannot be questioned.

I recommend going through the book more than one time. For this sort of books one could fall pray of confirmation/availability biases and miss the holistic point.