A collection of essays on how technological disruption, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence are undermining the political and religious stories that structured twentieth-century life, covering topics from work and data to nationalism, immigration, terrorism, and post-truth politics.
Books mentioned in 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (9)
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: “Otto von Bismarck allegedly remarked (having read Darwin's On the Origin of Species)...”
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell: “There is therefore no need for a secret police... à la Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.”
Hamlet by William Shakespeare: “William Shakespeare wrote his version of The Lion King, better known as Hamlet.”
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: “The Communist Manifesto opens by proclaiming that: The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley: “Huxley addresses this question directly in the novel's climactic moment: the dialogue between Mustapha Mond...and John the Savage.”
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “just like other great works of fiction, such as Don Quixote, War and Peace and Harry Potter”
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy: “just like other great works of fiction, such as Don Quixote, War and Peace and Harry Potter”
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling: “some people may be offended by my comparison of the Bible with Harry Potter...”
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: “Global politics thus follows the Anna Karenina principle: successful states are all alike, but every failed state fails in its own way.”