{"id":82374,"date":"2018-09-06T02:22:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T09:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/what-are-the-biggest-problems-facing-us-in-the-21st-century"},"modified":"2018-09-06T02:22:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T09:22:31","slug":"what-are-the-biggest-problems-facing-us-in-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/what-are-the-biggest-problems-facing-us-in-the-21st-century","title":{"rendered":"What Are the Biggest Problems Facing Us in the 21st Century?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-are-the-biggest-problems-facing-us-in-the-21st-century.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his fascinating new book, \u201c21 Lessons for the 21st Century,\u201d the historian Yuval Noah Harari creates a useful framework for confronting these fears. While his previous best sellers, \u201cSapiens\u201d and \u201cHomo Deus,\u201d covered the past and future respectively, his new book is all about the present. The trick for putting an end to our anxieties, he suggests, is not to stop worrying. It\u2019s to know which things to worry about, and how much to worry about them. As he writes in his introduction: \u201cWhat are today\u2019s greatest challenges and most important changes? What should we pay attention to? What should we teach our kids?\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In \u201c21 Lessons for the 21st Century,\u201d Yuval Noah Harari\u2019s latest book, the historian takes on everything from terrorism to inequality.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/04\/books\/review\/21-lessons-for-the-21st-century-yuval-noah-harari.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/04\/books\/review\/21-lessons-f...arari.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his fascinating new book, \u201c21 Lessons for the 21st Century,\u201d the historian Yuval Noah Harari creates a useful framework for confronting these fears. While his previous best sellers, \u201cSapiens\u201d and \u201cHomo Deus,\u201d covered the past and future respectively, his new book is all about the present. The trick for putting an end to our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}