21 Lessons for the 21st Century

If the future of humanity is decided in your absence, because you are too busy feeding and clothing your kids – you and they will not be exempt from the consequences.

As the circle of liberty expanded, the liberal story also came to recognise the importance of communist-style welfare programmes.

The richest 1 percent owns half the world’s wealth.

the rise of AI might eliminate the economic value and political power of most humans.

‘...membership in all kinds of groups has declined as much as one-quarter. That’s a lot of people who now need to find a sense of purpose and support somewhere else.’

‘...we started building artificial intelligence to do this. And it works.’

‘If we can do this, it will not only turn around the whole decline in community membership we’ve seen for decades, it will start to strengthen our social fabric and bring the world closer together.’

‘Yet several months after Zuckerberg made his vow, and just as this book was going to print, the Cambridge Analytica scandal revealed that data entrusted to Facebook was harvested by third parties and used to manipulate elections around the world.’

‘Many of the social and political disruptions of our time can be traced back to this malaise.’

Once this happened, there was no going back.