Book Review - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind

If I had to read just one book in life, this would be it. Am gonna put my neck out and say, they should include this book in primary education. I say this, not because, the genie that is Yuval Noah Harari answers all your existential questions via this book, but more so because he nudges you to question everything that you deemed to understand to full comprehension. What is a book, if not to to trigger curiosity?

It made me question. And question, I did

• Will the breakneck speed of science to create new bionic implants create a super-human, who is no longer human. If this does happen, say even in the next millennium, would that be a singular defining moment equivalent to the asteroid that wiped out the Dinosaurs ? All hail the Gilgamesh project and the thereby the new Gods that we would have created ?

  
  

• When we Homo sapiens face an obstacle to grow — do we fear ? do we hate ? do we show plain indifference in bulldozing the obstacle (the very laws of nature being the obstacle sometime)

All of written and preached history, places great importance to the Agriculture revolution and the Industrial revolution; but pays scant respect to the defining moment of history — The Cognitive revolution. I live in a consumerism driven world, where a basic appliance such as TV promises to come with AI, but hadn’t come across the impact of Cognitive Revolution before reading this book. (Ignoramus, I am). Cognitive revolution — the one that catapulted Homo Sapiens, while driving to extinction the Neanderthals (and now in hindsight a good portion of the animal kingdom also)

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