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Shares insights into such present-day issues as the role of technology in transforming humanity, the epidemic of false news, and the modern relevance of nations and religion. Full description
Table of Contents:
- Part I: The technological challenge
- Disillusionment: the end of history has been postponed
- Work: when you grow up, you might not have a job
- Liberty: big data is watching you
- Equality: those who own the data own the future
- Part II: The political challenge
- Community: humans have bodies
- Civilization: there is just one civilization in the world
- Nationalism: global problems need global answers
- Religion: God now serves the nation
- Immigration: some cultures might be better than others
- Part III: Despair and hope
- Terrorism: don't panic
- War: never underestimate human stupidity
- Humility: you are not the center of the world
- God: don't take the name of God in vain
- Secularism: acknowledge your shadow
- Part IV: Truth
- Ignorance: you know less than you think
- Justice: our sense of justice might be out of date
- Post-truth: some fake news lasts forever
- Science fiction: the future is not what you see in the movies
- Part V: Resilience
- Education: change is the only constant
- Meaning: life is not a story
- Meditation: just observe.