Received as a gift 2018
I like books that look at something differently from the commonly accepted point of view. Harari does this with human history. He claims that what has made homo sapiens “successful” is our ability to imagine, tell stories, collectively believe in things that don’t objectively exist. He argues that three of these things are money, nations and ideologies. He says that because Sapiens can function with these constructs we are able to cooperate in very large groups (essentially world-wide, at this point). And that our near relatives, other homo species and apes, were not able to do this.
I don’t necessarily agree with his look into the future of Sapiens but he does say this pure speculation.