Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

by Yuval Noah Harari

Immortality side effect. Lot's of assholes get to be one too.

The government makes worthless pieces of paper, declares them to be valuable and then uses them to compute the value of everything else.

:D

Today we might think of medieval knights as insensitive brutes. If they lived among us, we would send them to a therapist, who might help them get in touch with their feelings.

‘How many Vietnam vets does it take to change a light bulb?’ ‘You wouldn’t know, you weren’t there.’6

In 2008 Google actually launched Google Flu Trends, that tracks flu outbreaks by monitoring Google searches.