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Harari had the chance to write a truly chilling conclusion by expanding on the possibilities of a data-driven world. What happens when Facebook knows everything about you? What happens when Instagram knows where you are at all times? SO MANY POSSIBILITIES. And all of them are freaky as f*ck. But noooo, he drones on and on about the Internet-Of-All-Things. Dude, you threw away your shot.

"Never in history did a government know so much about what's going on in the world -- yet few empires have botched things up as clumsily as the contemporary United States." I wanna remember this sentence forever HAHAHA. It's true. It's like Hodor playing the Game of Thrones.

"'Nobody is in charge of supplying bread to London.'" The most capitalist sentence EVER. Nobody is in charge but the invisible hand of market correction. What a freaky, freaky thought.

Techno-humanists = influencers?
Downgraded sapiens = their followers?

Harari is naïve if he thinks a class of superhumans won't be bludgeoned to death by normal Sapiens too seeped in dystopian movies. We always seek to destroy that which we do not understand.

"Will elites and governments go on valuing every human being even when it pays no economic dividends?" This better be a rhetorical question.

"Each of us has a sophisticated system that throws away most of our experiences, keeps only a few choice samples, mixes them up with bits from movies we've seen, novels we've read, speeches we've heard, and daydreams we've savoured, and out of all that jumble it weaves a seemingly coherent story about who I am, where I came from and where I am going." DAMN.

"Yes, the Islamic State knows how to put videos on YouTube; but leaving aside the industry of torture, what new inventions have emerged from Syria or Iraq lately?" Gago, I snorted. 😂

Did Karl Marx not understand human greed?

"It's ironic that they swear to tell the truth on a book brimming with so many fictions, myths and errors." It's the principle of the thing, gago. 😂