Three science books, namely Big Data, Little Data, No Data by Christine L. Borgman; Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari; and Junk DNA by Nessa Carey, are featured.
the Big Bite Photograph: Getty Images/Dorling Kindersley Ideas letter from the future The multimillion-selling biographer of humanityhas concerns about our new robot overlords By Wesley Yang ...Eskpertise When I reach him by phone in Paris, the best- selling author Yuval Noah Harari declares free will an illusion, human rights a fiction, and democracy on the verge of obsolescence - all in a single breath. Harari, 42, whose academic specializations are medieval and military history, is the author of two multimillion-selling books - Sapiens, which has been translated into nearly 50 languages, and Homo Deus - that trace the development of the human species from "insignificant animals" to godlike entities closing in on "the ability to design and create living beings; to transform their own bodies; to control the environment and the weather; to read mindsâeuroper thousand.âeuroper thousand.âeuroper thousand.âeuroper thousandand of course to escape death and live indefinitely." ...in 10 or 20 years, people will look back and ask why didn't we regulate AI in time? "The victory of democracy was based on the technological reality that you couldn't process all the information in one place, so free markets and distributed systems of decision-making had an advantage over centralized systems.âeuroper thousand.âeuroper thousand.âeuroper thousand.âeuroper thousandBut AI is going to change all, and provides advantages to those who concentrate all the data in one place." ...recently, it didn't matter that we had no free will, because nobody outside of yourself could really understand what was happening inside your body and brain," he says.
The bogeymen of globalism, multiculturalism and immigration are threatening to destroy the traditions and identities of all nations. ...nationalists across the world should make common cause in ...opposing these global forces. ...the “Nationalist International” envisions the world as a network of walled-but-friendly fortresses. The key problem with the network of fortresses is that each national fortress wants a bit more land, security and prosperity for itself at the expense of the neighbors, and without the help of universal values and global organisations, rival fortresses cannot agree on any common rules. If some politicians don’t understand these questions, or if they constantly talk about the past without being able to formulate a meaningful vision for the future, don’t vote for such politicians. ___________ Yuval Noah Harari is a history professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the author of three best-selling books, “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” (2014) and “Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow” (2016).
