This chapter on education is most interesting to me because of my interest in accelerated learning and education. Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century “In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power.” “To survive and flourish in such a world, you will need a lot of mental flexibility and a great reserves of emotional balance.” “So what else should we be teaching? Many pedagogical experts argue that school should be switched to teaching ‘the four Cs’ – critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity.” And how to deal with constant change in the constantly changing world. Forget teaching kids programming, the best skill you can teach them is reinvention. “The now century-old model of production-line school education is bankrupt.” AI the ultimate master machine learning algorithm will be able to do everything. “Once AI makes better decisions than us about careers and perhaps even relationships, our concept of humanity and of life will have to change.” On future education: change is the only constant and learning to learn is the top skill to master

The revolution of automation and AI will make humans redundant from all sorts of fields from truck-drivers to lawyers to accountants to teachers and so on.

Say that to all candle makers who missed the memo that electricity was going to disrupt their business. “No remaining human job will ever be safe from the threat of future automation.” Critics or sceptics will say to this, that there has always been a talk of amazing futuristic innovations that haven’t really actualised yet. On your future career prospect: soon you might not have one Some critics may argue that we’ve heard all this before but hopefully this time we’ll listen to the present-day voice of Cassandra.ģ68 pages and Kindle typical time of non-speed reading of it is 7 hours and 6 minutes but with this in-depth summary, you’ll be up to speed on it in minutes (especially if you just read the micro-summary of this summary at the end of the blog or watch Harari talk about his new book). 21 chapters/lessons are organised into five categories/parts: Part I: The Technological Challenge, Part I: The Political Challenge, Part III: Despair and Hope, Part IV: Truth and, finally and Part V: Resilience - and has tips on how to navigate the future we face – with the power of clarity. This time he focuses on the present time and the problems and issues we’re facing (terrorism, fake news and immigration) and offers some solutions. Summary of 21 Lessons for 21 Century by Yuval Noah HarariĢ1 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari – the third book by the acclaimed author of Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow and Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.

21 lessons for the 21st century summary