Un amico direttore editoriale, persona di cultura sterminata (legge tutti i libri che
vengono sottomessi all'editore) dice che Harari è uno scrittore brillante ed
elegantissimo. solo che dovrebbe andare nella narrativa, non nella saggistica
come dargli torto ?
On 08/09/24 11:02, J.C. DE MARTIN wrote:
“Although flesh and blood, Harari is Silicon Valley’s ideal of what a chatbot should be.
He raids libraries, detects the patterns, and boils all of history down to bullet points.”*
*Buona lettura!
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*jc*
Yuval Noah Harari’s Apocalyptic Vision
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/His warning of AI’s dangers is alarming, but does it help us avoid them?
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By Daniel Immerwahr
“About 14 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space came into being.” So begins
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011), by the Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari,
and so began one of the 21st century’s most astonishing academic careers. Sapiens has sold
more than 25 million copies in various languages. Since then, Harari has published several
other books, which have also sold millions. He now employs some 15 people to organize his
affairs and promote his ideas.
He needs them. Harari might be, after the Dalai Lama, the figure of global renown who is
least online. He doesn’t use a smartphone (“I’m trying to conserve my time and attention
<https://archive.jamesaltucher.com/podcast/yuval-noah-harari/>”). He meditates for two
hours daily <https://tim.blog/2020/10/30/yuval-noah-harari-transcript/>. And he spends a
month or more each year on retreat, forgoing what one can only presume are staggering
speaking fees to sit in silence. Completing the picture, Harari is bald, bespectacled, and
largely vegan. The word /guru/ is sometimes heard
<https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/15/21-lessons-for-the-21st-century-by-yuval-noah-harari-review>.
Harari’s monastic aura gives him a powerful allure in Silicon Valley, where he is revered.
Bill Gates blurbed /Sapiens/. Mark Zuckerberg promoted it. In 2020, Jeff Bezos testified
remotely to Congress in front of a nearly bare set of bookshelves—a disquieting look for
the founder of Amazon, the planet’s largest bookseller. Sharp-eyed viewers made out, among
the six lonely titles huddling for warmth on the lower-left shelf, two of Harari’s books
<https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/books/celebrity-bookshelves-anthony-fauci-chris-rock.html>. Harari is to the tech CEO what David Foster Wallace once was to the Williamsburg hipster.
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cont:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/yuval-noah-harari-nexus-book/679572/
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