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Book Introduction
Celebrating 10th anniversary, 200th printing, and 1.15 million copies
Includes a special foreword by Yuval Harari
“In the age of artificial intelligence, what we need to understand is the human mind, not coding.”
The most controversial and daring epic about human history and future
Where will humanity, which has sailed the sea of evolution aboard the ship of civilization, go next?
“You can’t help but love this book.” (Jared Diamond)
Sapiens, the masterpiece of Yuval Harari, a "genius thinker" (New York Times).
Even in the domestic publishing market, where the term "recession" is no longer out of place, "Sapiens" is leading the trend in the humanities and liberal arts, achieving the remarkable record of "200 editions and 1.15 million copies sold" as of January 2023.
The insights of Sapiens, which traverses the history and future of humanity, are essential for understanding and preparing for an uncertain and complex world.
The book's introduction includes a special preface that looks back on the past ten years since the original book was published in 2011 and offers advice to humanity facing a crisis.
Humanity is currently facing a more difficult situation than ever before.
What must we do to overcome this crisis? The author emphasizes "understanding humanity" as the key to a better world.
Although this is a preface marking the 10th anniversary of the publication, it contains more of an appeal to fellow sapiens to overcome unprecedented difficulties than personal reflections on publishing a global bestseller.
Includes a special foreword by Yuval Harari
“In the age of artificial intelligence, what we need to understand is the human mind, not coding.”
The most controversial and daring epic about human history and future
Where will humanity, which has sailed the sea of evolution aboard the ship of civilization, go next?
“You can’t help but love this book.” (Jared Diamond)
Sapiens, the masterpiece of Yuval Harari, a "genius thinker" (New York Times).
Even in the domestic publishing market, where the term "recession" is no longer out of place, "Sapiens" is leading the trend in the humanities and liberal arts, achieving the remarkable record of "200 editions and 1.15 million copies sold" as of January 2023.
The insights of Sapiens, which traverses the history and future of humanity, are essential for understanding and preparing for an uncertain and complex world.
The book's introduction includes a special preface that looks back on the past ten years since the original book was published in 2011 and offers advice to humanity facing a crisis.
Humanity is currently facing a more difficult situation than ever before.
What must we do to overcome this crisis? The author emphasizes "understanding humanity" as the key to a better world.
Although this is a preface marking the 10th anniversary of the publication, it contains more of an appeal to fellow sapiens to overcome unprecedented difficulties than personal reflections on publishing a global bestseller.
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Special Preface to Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of Publication: The Age of Artificial Intelligence Requires a New Story
Preface_ To Korean Readers
Historical Timeline
Part 1: The Cognitive Revolution
1.
Animals of little importance
2.
Tree of Knowledge
3.
One day Adam and Eve
4.
deluge
Part 2: The Agricultural Revolution
5.
The greatest fraud in history
6.
Building a pyramid
7.
memory overload
8.
There is no justice in history
Part 3: The Unity of Humanity
9.
The arrow of history
10.
The scent of money
11.
Vision of the Empire
12.
The Law of Religion
13.
Secret to Success
Part 4: Scientific Revolutions
14.
The discovery of ignorance
15.
The Marriage of Science and Empire
16.
capitalist doctrine
17.
Wheel of Industry
18.
Endless Revolution
19.
And they lived happily ever after
20.
The End of Homo Sapiens
Review_ Animals that became gods
Translator's Note
References
Search
Preface_ To Korean Readers
Historical Timeline
Part 1: The Cognitive Revolution
1.
Animals of little importance
2.
Tree of Knowledge
3.
One day Adam and Eve
4.
deluge
Part 2: The Agricultural Revolution
5.
The greatest fraud in history
6.
Building a pyramid
7.
memory overload
8.
There is no justice in history
Part 3: The Unity of Humanity
9.
The arrow of history
10.
The scent of money
11.
Vision of the Empire
12.
The Law of Religion
13.
Secret to Success
Part 4: Scientific Revolutions
14.
The discovery of ignorance
15.
The Marriage of Science and Empire
16.
capitalist doctrine
17.
Wheel of Industry
18.
Endless Revolution
19.
And they lived happily ever after
20.
The End of Homo Sapiens
Review_ Animals that became gods
Translator's Note
References
Search
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Into the book
People all over the world are struggling to gain access to amazing new technologies.
But this technology doesn't tell us what to do with it.
Genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology could be used to build heaven or create hell.
If you make wise choices, the benefits will be endless, but if you make foolish choices, the cost could be the extinction of the human race.
It is in all of our hands whether we make wise choices.
--- p.10~11
People did not have the ability to fully grasp the consequences of their decisions.
When people decided to do more work, (…) they thought like this.
'It's true that this will require more work, but the harvest will increase significantly.
There will be no need to worry about famine anymore.
'The kids won't go to bed hungry.' That made sense.
'If I work harder, my life will get better.' That was the plan.
(…) people worked harder.
But they failed to foresee that the number of children would increase.
The additional wheat produced had to go to the increased number of children.
(…) So why didn't they abandon farming when their plans went awry? Because it takes generations for small changes to accumulate and transform society, and by then no one will remember that they ever lived differently.
One reason was that the bridge to return was burned down due to population growth.
Suppose that the introduction of plowing increased the population of a village from 100 to 110.
Would there have been ten people who would have voluntarily chosen to starve themselves to death so that the rest of the people could return to the good old days?
--- p.133~134
How do we get people to believe in imaginary orders like Christianity, democracy, or capitalism? First, we must never admit that those orders are figments of our imagination.
We must always assert that the order that sustains society is an objective reality created by a great god or natural laws.
It is not because Hammurabi said so that people are not equal, but because Enlil and Marduk decreed so.
People are equal not because Thomas Jefferson said so, but because God created them that way.
The free market is the best economic system not because Adam Smith said so, but because it is an immutable law of nature.
--- p.169~170
History moves from crossroads to crossroads, taking one path at a time and then another for some unknown reason.
Around 1500, history made its most momentous choice.
It was a choice that would change not only the fate of humanity, but perhaps the fate of all life on Earth.
We call this a scientific revolution.
The revolution began in Western Europe, on a large peninsula at the western end of Afroasia.
In a region that had not played any significant role in history until then.
Why did the Scientific Revolution occur there, of all places? Why didn't it occur in China or India? Why did it occur in the middle of the second millennium, rather than two or three centuries before or after its actual time? We don't know.
Scholars have proposed a dozen or so theories, but none are particularly plausible.
--- p.346~347
The core of the Industrial Revolution was the revolution in energy conversion.
The Industrial Revolution has shown us again and again that there are no limits to the energy we can use.
To be more precise, it showed that the only limitation is our ignorance.
Every few decades, a new energy source is discovered, and thanks to this, the total amount of energy available to us continues to increase.
So why do so many people fear energy depletion? Why do they warn of a catastrophe if available fossil fuels run out? Clearly, there is no such thing as energy shortage in the world.
What is lacking is the knowledge needed to find the energy and convert it to suit our needs.
But this technology doesn't tell us what to do with it.
Genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology could be used to build heaven or create hell.
If you make wise choices, the benefits will be endless, but if you make foolish choices, the cost could be the extinction of the human race.
It is in all of our hands whether we make wise choices.
--- p.10~11
People did not have the ability to fully grasp the consequences of their decisions.
When people decided to do more work, (…) they thought like this.
'It's true that this will require more work, but the harvest will increase significantly.
There will be no need to worry about famine anymore.
'The kids won't go to bed hungry.' That made sense.
'If I work harder, my life will get better.' That was the plan.
(…) people worked harder.
But they failed to foresee that the number of children would increase.
The additional wheat produced had to go to the increased number of children.
(…) So why didn't they abandon farming when their plans went awry? Because it takes generations for small changes to accumulate and transform society, and by then no one will remember that they ever lived differently.
One reason was that the bridge to return was burned down due to population growth.
Suppose that the introduction of plowing increased the population of a village from 100 to 110.
Would there have been ten people who would have voluntarily chosen to starve themselves to death so that the rest of the people could return to the good old days?
--- p.133~134
How do we get people to believe in imaginary orders like Christianity, democracy, or capitalism? First, we must never admit that those orders are figments of our imagination.
We must always assert that the order that sustains society is an objective reality created by a great god or natural laws.
It is not because Hammurabi said so that people are not equal, but because Enlil and Marduk decreed so.
People are equal not because Thomas Jefferson said so, but because God created them that way.
The free market is the best economic system not because Adam Smith said so, but because it is an immutable law of nature.
--- p.169~170
History moves from crossroads to crossroads, taking one path at a time and then another for some unknown reason.
Around 1500, history made its most momentous choice.
It was a choice that would change not only the fate of humanity, but perhaps the fate of all life on Earth.
We call this a scientific revolution.
The revolution began in Western Europe, on a large peninsula at the western end of Afroasia.
In a region that had not played any significant role in history until then.
Why did the Scientific Revolution occur there, of all places? Why didn't it occur in China or India? Why did it occur in the middle of the second millennium, rather than two or three centuries before or after its actual time? We don't know.
Scholars have proposed a dozen or so theories, but none are particularly plausible.
--- p.346~347
The core of the Industrial Revolution was the revolution in energy conversion.
The Industrial Revolution has shown us again and again that there are no limits to the energy we can use.
To be more precise, it showed that the only limitation is our ignorance.
Every few decades, a new energy source is discovered, and thanks to this, the total amount of energy available to us continues to increase.
So why do so many people fear energy depletion? Why do they warn of a catastrophe if available fossil fuels run out? Clearly, there is no such thing as energy shortage in the world.
What is lacking is the knowledge needed to find the energy and convert it to suit our needs.
--- p.480
Publisher's Review
Celebrating 10th anniversary, 200th printing, and 1.15 million copies
Includes a special foreword by Yuval Harari
Sapiens, the masterpiece of Yuval Harari, a "genius thinker" (New York Times).
Even in the domestic publishing market, where the term "recession" is no longer out of place, "Sapiens" is leading the trend in the humanities and liberal arts, achieving the remarkable feat of "200 editions and 1.15 million copies sold" as of January 2023.
It has been published in 65 languages worldwide and has sold over 23 million copies, establishing itself as a global bestseller for a long time.
Strongly recommended by prominent intellectuals at home and abroad, including Bill Gates, Jared Diamond, Mark Zuckerberg, Professor Dae-sik Kim, a neuroscientist at KAIST, author Si-min Yoo, and Professor Sang-wook Kim of the Department of Physics at Kyunghee University, 『Sapiens』 is a true classic of our time.
The insights of Sapiens, which traverses the history and future of humanity, are essential for understanding and preparing for an uncertain and complex world.
The book's introduction includes a special preface that looks back on the past ten years since the original book was published in 2011 and offers advice to humanity facing a crisis.
The climate crisis and the coronavirus pandemic, the US-China hegemony competition and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the light and dark sides of technological innovation and deepening polarization, and even the signs of a collapse of democracy and a long-term economic downturn being witnessed around the world.
Humanity is currently facing a more difficult situation than ever before.
What must we do to overcome this crisis? The author emphasizes "understanding humanity" as the key to a better world.
Although this is a preface marking the 10th anniversary of the publication, it contains more of an appeal to fellow sapiens to overcome unprecedented difficulties than personal reflections on publishing a global bestseller.
“In the age of artificial intelligence, what we need to understand is the human mind, not coding.”
An appeal to fellow Sapiens through a special preface
The special introduction begins with the author's feelings of shock and bewilderment.
This is because the writing of the author imitated by a powerful artificial intelligence called 'GPT-3', the previous version of 'ChatGPT', which recently attracted the attention of people around the world, was surprisingly plausible.
“I disagree with some of the claims made by GPT-3.
But I couldn't help but be surprised by the fact that the article actually made some kind of argument." In the ten years since the publication of Sapiens, artificial intelligence has revolutionized human life.
As the author predicts, the day may soon come when artificial intelligence understands us better than we understand ourselves.
Will dystopian movies become reality?
The author says that in the coming age of technology, new paths will open when we understand the human mind, not computer programs.
Humanity has developed civilizations by creating fictional stories about gods, nations, and corporations.
“Humans know more facts than any other animal, but they also believe more fictions.
These stories are the foundation of our society and the source of meaning in our lives.” Therefore, understanding the human mind that will create new stories in a new era is more important than knowing how to code.
This is why we need the wisdom of poets, philosophers, and historians, as well as the knowledge of technical experts and economists.
The most controversial and daring epic about human history and future
Where will humanity, which has sailed the sea of evolution aboard the ship of civilization, go next?
Sapiens is a rare and entertaining humanities book that weaves together a wealth of knowledge and information with brilliant storytelling.
It's a brick book, but that's why it's chosen by many readers.
Reading Harari's books, which combine broad knowledge with bold interpretations and insights, and a lively writing style that captivates the public, is like being invited to a grand intellectual feast.
It covers the latest achievements in both new and old fields of study, from archaeological anthropology to politics, society, economics, culture, biotechnology, information technology, and data science. After reading Sapiens, you will feel as if you have covered most major works in various fields.
Yet, he knows how to tackle difficult topics in a lighthearted manner.
He digests the research results of each field and uses them as the foundation and main stem of the story, but at exquisite points, he branches out with his own inferences and imagination.
In his hands, bold academic discourses such as nature and culture, material and consciousness, sex and the secular, religion and science, democracy and nationalism, identity and meaning, algorithms and data are transformed into fascinating stories.
How did Homo sapiens, the ape from the periphery, become the ruler of the world? How did our hunter-gatherer ancestors gather together and build cities and kingdoms? Why did humans become the deadliest animals in Earth's history? Is science the future of all religions? What is the human shelf life? "Sapiens," an unprecedented work of thought, vividly illuminates the history of humanity, from its origins through the Cognitive Revolution, the Agricultural Revolution, and the Scientific Revolution, transcending the boundaries of biology, economics, religious studies, psychology, and philosophy.
You'll love this book (Jared Diamond).
Includes a special foreword by Yuval Harari
Sapiens, the masterpiece of Yuval Harari, a "genius thinker" (New York Times).
Even in the domestic publishing market, where the term "recession" is no longer out of place, "Sapiens" is leading the trend in the humanities and liberal arts, achieving the remarkable feat of "200 editions and 1.15 million copies sold" as of January 2023.
It has been published in 65 languages worldwide and has sold over 23 million copies, establishing itself as a global bestseller for a long time.
Strongly recommended by prominent intellectuals at home and abroad, including Bill Gates, Jared Diamond, Mark Zuckerberg, Professor Dae-sik Kim, a neuroscientist at KAIST, author Si-min Yoo, and Professor Sang-wook Kim of the Department of Physics at Kyunghee University, 『Sapiens』 is a true classic of our time.
The insights of Sapiens, which traverses the history and future of humanity, are essential for understanding and preparing for an uncertain and complex world.
The book's introduction includes a special preface that looks back on the past ten years since the original book was published in 2011 and offers advice to humanity facing a crisis.
The climate crisis and the coronavirus pandemic, the US-China hegemony competition and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the light and dark sides of technological innovation and deepening polarization, and even the signs of a collapse of democracy and a long-term economic downturn being witnessed around the world.
Humanity is currently facing a more difficult situation than ever before.
What must we do to overcome this crisis? The author emphasizes "understanding humanity" as the key to a better world.
Although this is a preface marking the 10th anniversary of the publication, it contains more of an appeal to fellow sapiens to overcome unprecedented difficulties than personal reflections on publishing a global bestseller.
“In the age of artificial intelligence, what we need to understand is the human mind, not coding.”
An appeal to fellow Sapiens through a special preface
The special introduction begins with the author's feelings of shock and bewilderment.
This is because the writing of the author imitated by a powerful artificial intelligence called 'GPT-3', the previous version of 'ChatGPT', which recently attracted the attention of people around the world, was surprisingly plausible.
“I disagree with some of the claims made by GPT-3.
But I couldn't help but be surprised by the fact that the article actually made some kind of argument." In the ten years since the publication of Sapiens, artificial intelligence has revolutionized human life.
As the author predicts, the day may soon come when artificial intelligence understands us better than we understand ourselves.
Will dystopian movies become reality?
The author says that in the coming age of technology, new paths will open when we understand the human mind, not computer programs.
Humanity has developed civilizations by creating fictional stories about gods, nations, and corporations.
“Humans know more facts than any other animal, but they also believe more fictions.
These stories are the foundation of our society and the source of meaning in our lives.” Therefore, understanding the human mind that will create new stories in a new era is more important than knowing how to code.
This is why we need the wisdom of poets, philosophers, and historians, as well as the knowledge of technical experts and economists.
The most controversial and daring epic about human history and future
Where will humanity, which has sailed the sea of evolution aboard the ship of civilization, go next?
Sapiens is a rare and entertaining humanities book that weaves together a wealth of knowledge and information with brilliant storytelling.
It's a brick book, but that's why it's chosen by many readers.
Reading Harari's books, which combine broad knowledge with bold interpretations and insights, and a lively writing style that captivates the public, is like being invited to a grand intellectual feast.
It covers the latest achievements in both new and old fields of study, from archaeological anthropology to politics, society, economics, culture, biotechnology, information technology, and data science. After reading Sapiens, you will feel as if you have covered most major works in various fields.
Yet, he knows how to tackle difficult topics in a lighthearted manner.
He digests the research results of each field and uses them as the foundation and main stem of the story, but at exquisite points, he branches out with his own inferences and imagination.
In his hands, bold academic discourses such as nature and culture, material and consciousness, sex and the secular, religion and science, democracy and nationalism, identity and meaning, algorithms and data are transformed into fascinating stories.
How did Homo sapiens, the ape from the periphery, become the ruler of the world? How did our hunter-gatherer ancestors gather together and build cities and kingdoms? Why did humans become the deadliest animals in Earth's history? Is science the future of all religions? What is the human shelf life? "Sapiens," an unprecedented work of thought, vividly illuminates the history of humanity, from its origins through the Cognitive Revolution, the Agricultural Revolution, and the Scientific Revolution, transcending the boundaries of biology, economics, religious studies, psychology, and philosophy.
You'll love this book (Jared Diamond).
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of publication: November 23, 2015
- Page count, weight, size: 636 pages | 968g | 152*215*35mm
- ISBN13: 9788934972464
- ISBN10: 8934972467
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