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21 LESSONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Yuval Noah Harari
Penguin Random House
370 pages; Rs 799
The human mind wants to worry. This is not necessarily a bad thing — after all, if a bear is stalking you, worrying about it may well save your life. Although most of us don’t need to lose too much sleep over bears these days, modern life does present plenty of other reasons for concern: Terrorism, climate change, the rise of AI, encroachments on our privacy, even the apparent decline of international cooperation.
In his fascinating new book, the historian Yuval Noah
Yuval Noah Harari
Penguin Random House
370 pages; Rs 799
The human mind wants to worry. This is not necessarily a bad thing — after all, if a bear is stalking you, worrying about it may well save your life. Although most of us don’t need to lose too much sleep over bears these days, modern life does present plenty of other reasons for concern: Terrorism, climate change, the rise of AI, encroachments on our privacy, even the apparent decline of international cooperation.
In his fascinating new book, the historian Yuval Noah
