How an unremarkable ape came to rule the planet — a sweeping history of humankind from the Stone Age to Silicon Valley.
Harari traces three revolutions that shaped us: the Cognitive Revolution that gave us shared stories, the Agricultural Revolution that tied us to land, and the Scientific Revolution that gave us power over nature.
His central claim is that humans cooperate at scale because we believe in shared fictions — money, nations, companies, laws — that exist only in our collective imagination.
Large-scale cooperation depends on stories we all believe — from gods to limited liability companies.
Farming fed more people but often made individual lives harder, more anxious and less varied.
Money is the most universal system of mutual trust ever devised.
For all their violence, empires spread shared languages, laws and cultures.
More power has not reliably made us happier — a question science is only starting to ask.
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