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21 lezioni per il XXI secolo by Marco Piani, Yuval Noah Harari

luka_maria's review against another edition

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challenging informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

meera01's review against another edition

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informative medium-paced

3.5

I enjoyed this book and his theories on various issues concerning the world now and how things might turn out. The narrator was excellent. But I did start getting a little tired of how much conjectures there were by the end of the book.

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

miansahab's review against another edition

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challenging hopeful informative

4.5

kimmeham's review against another edition

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5.0

Harari er virkelig blant de sakprosaforfatterne jeg setter mest pris på å lese bøkene av. Han har en glimrende evne til å bruke illustrerende og opplysende eksempler på kompliserte mekanismer, enten det gjelder storpolitikk eller hvordan biologi kan være med på å forklare valgene vi mennesker tar. Jeg liker også hvordan han klarer å flette inn et så utrolig bredt faglig spekter inn i boken.

Tankene er nødvendigvis ikke alle helt nye - jeg kjenner igjen en del fra spesielt «Homo Deus». Like fullt er det aldri rene blåkopier, enten han går mer i dybden eller trekker inn flere momenter i analysene. Utover det var dette en bok jeg hadde veldig stor glede av å lese, og som jeg føler meg litt klokere etter å ha lest ferdig.

Skeptikeren i meg er imidlertid ikke veldig imponert over den i overkant alternative avslutninger hvor Harari omfavner meditasjon og annet alternativt fjas. Men det er ikke nok til å trekke ned en klokkeren femstjerner fra min side.

gjermis's review against another edition

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4.0

Veldig spennende og relativt lettlest bok, særlig mtp. hvor tungt mye av det han tar for seg faktisk er å forstå! Jeg innså hvert fall raskt hvor lite jeg egentlig vet og hvor lite jeg har reflektert om de store tingene vi kanskje må forholde oss til fremover.

Avslutningsvis prøver han å si noe om sin inngang spørsmålene han stiller, og her glir boka raskt over til filosofi og hvordan man skal forstå livet og meningen med det. Med blandet hell vil jeg kanskje påstå, men klarer å sparke igang dine egne refleksjoner - og det er kanskje poenget?

Verdt å lese om du vil utfordres på hvor ubetydelig du egentlig er i, og ikke minst om du vil ha en enkel inngang til en rekke ulike temaer som du kan fordype deg mer i.

viopgzkx's review against another edition

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inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

intissarelm's review against another edition

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informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

marians_'s review against another edition

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.75

applekern's review against another edition

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3.0

What is the core message of this book? It certainly is not giving 21 lessons to keep in mind for the coming century. Rather, the author is dissecting many of the dynamics and questionmarks we are currently facing, without any lessons or clear line of logic. Starting with, how did he come up with the exact number of 21 - merely abritrary to make a nice title? - this book is rather a collection of thought provoking observations and a discussion of what might be possible.
And while it does a good job at providing food for thought, it also seems to contradict itself. I loved reading Sapiens, as it seemed to me a rather unbiased view on how humanity developed. However, Harari now seemed inherently biased and looking at the topics solely through western-ish glasses. It's easy to be pessimistic and see all the possible ways things can go wrong, and thus I did not see why writing this book contributed to the legacies of Sapiens and Homo Deus.
Other things that bothered me where how he used Disney movies to describe complex situations - don't get me wrong, I love Disney movies - and how he routinely focussed on elaborating how monumentally different developments now are from 1000 years ago. Ex-post, this is always easy to see and say that it's "clear" how things would develop. However back then, like now, the future is ambigious and assuming anything else is naive.
Overall I probably just got taken aback by the amount of praise this book has gotten, which is why this review is harsher than I usually would critique a book. I still consider some parts valuable and learned about dynamics that were not as obvious to me before. 3.5 stars.