The 21st Century and the Emergence of a Civilizational Change with Reference to the Writings of Yuval Noah Harari
Author : Dr. Anupama Sabhapathy
Abstract :
Yuval Noah Harari is one of the best-selling authors who has condensed history to its core, allowing and enabling readers and audience (he being a speaker too) with his visionary philosophy that is futuristic. His perspectives on evolution, human history, digital nexus and the 21st century lessons are widely received for their explosive interpretations and facts. This Paper makes a small attempt to blend the common themes that are pervasive in his writings, his regular emphasis on history, civilization, technology in all its forms, including the digital networks, information systems etc., A historian and a philosopher, as he is known, he explains the power of myths and belief systems that have organized societies throughout centuries. His repeated persuasion to focus on the complexity of information and the deviation from truth is a call to alert ourselves to the impending dangers that may become inevitable if sense does not prevail. His insights into political histories, historical facts and the present economic-technological combinations are hard to ignore. His sweeping remarks on certain issues have invited both acknowledgement and an opinion that they are too generalized. However, his effort to trace the sources of human networks from the deep past to the next century is to be understood for its own worth.
Keywords :
21st century, evolution of information networks, Humanization of technology, the nexus of information, economic-digital trade network, political ideologies and civilizational watershed.
