100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens.
How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come?
In Sapiens, Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical - and sometimes devastating - breakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural and Scientific Revolutions. Drawing on insights from biology, anthropology, palaeontology and economics, he explores how the currents of history have shaped our human societies, the animals and plants around us, and even our personalities. Have we become happier as history has unfolded? Can we ever free our behaviour from the heritage of our ancestors? And what, if anything, can we do to influence the course of the centuries to come?
Bold, wide-ranging and provocative, Sapiens challenges everything we thought we knew about being human: our thoughts, our actions, our power ... and our future.
Selected from the books Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari How did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And what does the future hold for it? With brilliant clarity and insight, Yuval Noah Harari takes the reader on a journey from the very first coins through to 21st century economics and shows us how we are all on the brink of a revolution, whether we like it or not.
VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.
A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series:
Home by Salman Rushdie Babies by Anne Enright Eating by Nigella Lawson Drinking by John Cheever
Elles décryptent les mammographies, observent les rétines, scrutent les cerveaux et comparent les symptômes pour prédire d'éventuelles maladies. Les IA sont entrées à l'hôpital et dans les labos, où médecins et chercheurs inventent la santé du XXIe siècle. Des prothèses aux implants en passant par les consultations en ligne et les patients numériques, ces avancées vertigineuses interrogent notre rapport au corps.
Elles réveillent le fantasme de l'homme augmenté et le désir d'immortalité des transhumanistes. Grâce à l'éclairage des plus grands experts, cette enquête dresse un état de la recherche et des dernières innovations en matière d'intelligence artificielle. Comment préserver le secret médical dans un monde ultra-connecté ? Les médecins vont-ils disparaître ? Les robots sont-ils une réponse à l'isolement ? Les machines nous privent-elles de notre libre arbitre ?
