Harari’s book

If you could rewrite any book’s ending, which one would you choose?

If I could rewrite the ending of any book, I would choose Yuval Noah Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. I deeply enjoyed the book, though I’m nowhere near 0.00001% of Harari’s writing ability.

Still, I would end it on a more hopeful note. AI is here, and there is no going back—it’s a one-way ticket. Instead of ending with uncertainty, I would add a 22nd chapter about how people can adapt: how to learn new skills, stay employable, and reinvent themselves whenever technology changes.

In programming terms, it would be an infinite loop: Learn → Adapt → Work → Relearn → Adapt again. That, I believe, is the real lesson for the 21st century.

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  1. sriwrites Avatar
    sriwrites

    You’re so right that AI is a one-way ticket. While uncertainty is real, focusing the ending on how humans can continuously adapt and learn gives the reader action steps instead of anxiety. Truly a great lesson for the 21st century.

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  2. Josh Avatar
    Josh

    Re: “AI is here, and there is no going back—it’s a one-way ticket.”
    Yeah, “a one-way ticket” to total global slavery!
    Everyone SHOULD of course get what AI is REALLY all about but most people CHOOSE not to want to understand it…
    “Ignorance is the root cause of all Evil. Since only Knowledge eradicates ignorance, it is our duty and moral obligation to educate ourselves, as well as the masses around us.” — Anonymous
    Like with every criminal inhumane self-concerned agenda of theirs the psychopaths-in-control sell and propagandize AI to the “awake” public with total lies such as AI being the benign means to connect, unit, transform, benefit, and save humanity.
    The 2 major OFFICIAL deceptive fake FEAR-MONGERING narratives or phony pretexts (ie, lies, propaganda) nearly everyone, including “alternative news” sources, have been spreading is (1) that the TRULY big threat is that AI just creates utter chaos in society and that it might achieve control over humans (therefore it must be regulated, ie monopolized by the typical criminal governments); and (2) that we, the US, have to invest heavily in AI technological development so as to stay ahead of other nations, such as China (https://archive.is/pBzAt).
    The TRUE narrative (ie empirical reality) virtually no one talks about or spreads is that the TRULY big threat with AI is that AI allows the governing psychopaths-in-power to materialize their ultimate wet dream to control and enslave everyone and everything on the whole planet, a process that’s long been ongoing in front of everyone’s “awake” nose …. https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html
    The proof is in the pudding… ask yourself, “how is the hacking of the planet going so far? Has it increased or crushed personal freedom?”
    “AI responds according to the “rules” created by the programmers who are in turn owned by the people who pay their salaries. This is precisely why Globalists want an AI controlled society- rules for serfs, exceptions for the aristocracy.” —Unknown
    “Almost all AI systems today learn when and what their human designers or users want.” —Ali Minai, Ph.D., American Professor of Computer Science, 2023
    “Who masters those technologies [=artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, and digital identities] —in some way— will be the master of the world.” — Klaus Schwab, at the World Government Summit in Dubai, 2023
    “Around 2014-2015 the US National Security Agency (NSA) deployed an AI system called Skynet that placed people on a ‘suspected terrorists’ list, based on the electronic patterns of their communication, writings, travel and social media postings […] a former director of both the CIA and the NSA proclaimed that ‘we kill people based on metadata’” (Unknown)
    “[…] what we are being sold through all this AI hype is that everything should be reducible to categories and hierarchies, put in the form of measures and statistics for prediction. However, if you understand that counting, measuring and predicting are always situated, and therefore subjective and political, you might not be as excited about such AI-determined futures. […]. The bigger AI project asks that you abandon meaning and feeling, to believe in a neutral, objective, all-knowing source built from massively large datasets hosted in hyperscale data centres. AI asks that you buy into the idea that more data means being closer to The Truth. It means that you should want to offload your limited cognition to the super machine. And perhaps most dangerously — that you understand all of this as a scientific endeavour.” — Mél Hogan, Associate Professor in Film & Media, 2026
    “COVID is critical because this is what convinces people to accept, to legitimize, total biometric surveillance.” — Yuval Noah Harari, member of the dictatorial ruling mafia of psychopaths, World Economic Forum [https://archive.md/vrZGf]
    “The whole idea that humans have this soul, or spirit, or free will … that’s over.” — Yuval Noah Harari, member of the dictatorial ruling mafia of psychopaths, World Economic Forum [hhttps://archive.md/vrZGf
    How can the masses get out of this mess (and create justice, freedom and peace for all)? Everyone needs to first learn what TRUE morality is —99% of people don’t know what it is because (1) it’s NOT taught in the official indoctrination system, better know as the “education system,” and (2) it’s NOT the same as religious morality: https://odysee.com/@woeih:e/Mark-Passio-Government-Is-Slavery:a

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    1. Muthukumar Avatar
      Muthukumar

      I agree that AI can be misused for surveillance, manipulation, or concentration of power, and history reminds us that every powerful technology carries such risks. At the same time, I think it is important to separate evidence-based concerns from broader claims that require stronger proof. The deeper challenge is not whether AI is inherently good or evil, but whether human values, transparency, accountability, and critical thinking remain in control. AI should augment human wisdom, not replace it.

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