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To succeed in such a daunting task, you will need to work very hard on getting to know your operating system better. His previous books include Sapiens and Homo Deus.
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When Coca-Cola, Amazon, Baidu or the government knows how to pull the strings of your heart and press the buttons of your brain, could you still tell the difference between your self and their marketing experts? Author Yuval Noah Hararim who’s also a historian, philosopher, writer and futurologist. The voice we hear inside our heads was never trustworthy, because it always reflected state propaganda, ideological brainwashing and commercial advertisement, not to mention biochemical bugs.Īs biotechnology and machine learning improve, it will become easier to manipulate people’s deepest emotions and desires, and it will become more dangerous than ever to just follow your heart. Just like Riley Andersen, most people hardly know themselves, and when they try to ‘listen to themselves’ they easily become prey to external manipulations. Should you rely on yourself, then? That sounds great on Sesame Street or in an old-fashioned Disney film, but in real life it doesn’t work so well. Have you seen those zombies who roam the streets with their faces glued to their smartphones? Do you think they control the technology, or does the technology control them? Especially as technology gets better at understanding humans, you might increasingly find yourself serving it, instead of it serving you. But if you don’t know what you want in life, it will be all too easy for technology to shape your aims for you and take control of your life. If you know what you want in life, technology can help you get it. Most people found themselves working from sunrise till sunset plucking weeds, carrying water buckets and harvesting corn under a blazing sun. Thousands of years ago humans invented agriculture, but this technology enriched just a tiny elite, while enslaving the majority of humans. Technology can help you a lot, but if technology gains too much power over your life, you might become a hostage to its agenda. So on what can you rely instead? Perhaps on technology? That’s an even riskier gamble. Due to the growing pace of change you can never be certain whether what the adults are telling you is timeless wisdom or outdated bias. But the twenty-first century is going to be different. In the past, it was a relatively safe bet to follow the adults, because they knew the world quite well, and the world changed slowly. Most of them mean well, but they just don’t understand the world.
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The best advice I could give a fifteen-year-old stuck in an outdated school somewhere in Mexico, India or Alabama is: don’t rely on the adults too much.