Alice’s Reviews > Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow > Status Update

“ terrorism is a strategy of weakness adopted by those who lack access to real power. At least in the past, terrorism worked by spreading fear rather than by causing significant material damage”

“Hence as knowledge became the most important economic resource, the profitability of war declined and wars became increasingly restricted to those parts of the world - such as the Middle East and Central Africa - where the economies are still old-fashioned material-based economies.”

Chekhov Law - “Anton Chekhov famously said that a gun appearing in the first act of a play will inevitably be fired in the third”