Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (68 page)
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Authors: Yuval Noah Harari
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 21, 24, 31
Urban II, Pope 227–8
Uruk 156–7
Valla, Lorenzo 192
Valle Giulia, Battle of, 1968 263
vampire bats 204–5
Vedas 170, 181, 270
Vietnam War, 1954–75 57, 244, 264,
265
virtual-reality worlds 326–7
VITAL 322–3
Voyager
golden record 258–9
Waal, Frans de 140–1
Walter, Jean-Jacques:
Gustav Adolph of Sweden at the Battle of Breitenfeld
(1631) 242, 243, 244–5
war 1–3, 14–19; humanism and narratives of 241–6,
242
,
245
, 253–6
Warsaw Pact 264–5
Watson (artificial intelligence system) 315–17,
315
, 330
Watson, John 88–9, 90
Waze 341–2
web of meaning 143–9
WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic) countries, psychology research focus on 354–5, 359, 360
West Africa: Ebola and 11, 13, 203
‘What Is It Like to Be a Bat?’ (Nagel) 357
White House lawn 62,
62
, 63
Wilson, Woodrow 309
Wojcicki, Anne 336
World Cup Final, 2014 36, 37,
63
World Food Conference, Rome, 1974 5
World Health Organization 10, 11, 13
writing: algorithmic organisation of societies and 160–3; invention of 157–60, 379; shaping reality through 163–77
Yersinia pestis
7,
7
Zeus 47, 144–5, 176
YUVAL NOAH HARARI
has a PhD in history from the University of Oxford and now lectures at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in world history. His first book,
Sapiens
, was translated into twenty-six languages and became a bestseller in the US, UK, France, China, Korea, and numerous other countries. In 2010 he became president of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in London.
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HOMO DEUS
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Translated by the author.
First published as
The History of Tomorrow
in Hebrew in Israel in 2015 by Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir.
Previously published in Great Britain in 2016 by Harvill Secker, a division of Penguin Random House Group Ltd.
ISBN: 978-0-06-246431-6 (International Edition)
EPub Edition September 2016 ISBN 9780062663177
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The formula takes a multiplication symbol because the elements work one on the other. At least according to medieval scholastics, you cannot understand the Bible without logic. If your logic value is zero, then even if you read every page of the Bible, the sum of your knowledge would still be zero. Conversely, if your scripture value is zero, then no amount of logic can help you. If the formula used the addition symbol, the implication would be that somebody with lots of logic and no scriptures would still have a lot of knowledge – which you and I may find reasonable, but medieval scholastics did not.
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