1. Desman Hidayat
18th May 2014
Jakarta
Based on the course: “A Brief History of Humankind” by Dr. Yuval Noah Harari, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. Coursera.org

2.  13 billion years ago Big Bang
 Atom Physics
 Molecule Chemistry
 4 billion years ago Organism Biology
 70.000 years ago Homo Sapiens developed
culture history

3.  2.5 million years ago
 Australopithecus
 East Africa
 2 million years ago
 Left their homeland

4.  Homo Neanderthalensis
 “Neanderthal”
 Europe & Middle East

5.  Homo Floresiensis
 Flores Island, Indonesia

6.  Large Brain
 60 kilograms pig 200 CC brain
 60 kilograms human 1200-1400 CC brain
 Walk on 2 legs

9.  70,000 years ago
 Migrated from East Africa
 Reached Middle East, Europe, Central Asia, South Asia,
East Asia
 60,000 years ago
 Reached China & Korea
 45,000 years ago
 Reached Australia
 15,000 years ago
 Reached America

10.  Boats
 Needles
 Oil Lamps
 Weapons
 Religions

12.  Before human reached Australia (-50,000 years)
 24 Australian animal species (50kg+)
 After human reached Australia
 Only 1 Australian animal species (50kg+)
 Red Kangaroo

13. Agricultural Revolution

14.  Human brains are incapable of handling large amount
of information
 First script discovered:
 The name of an accountant
 Economic documents

15.  Unify the world into a single system
 3 factors:
 Money
 Politic
 Religion
 Empires’ history
 2250 BC: first empire: Akkadian Empire of Sargon the
Great, Mediterranean
 500 BC: Kiros the Great of Persia
 Alexander the Great
 Etc.

16.  3 unique characteristics of modern
science:
 Modern science assumes that we don’t
know everything
 The centrality of observation and
mathematics
 It aims to acquire new “power”

18.  Problems  Solutions
 The leading project of modern science
is to give humankind eternal life
 2050  Ammortal

19.  18th Century: European states were still weaker than
the great power of Asia
 European managed to conquer America and the
oceans mainly because Asia showed very little interest
in this areas
 How to rule the world?
 Technology
 European voyages = scientific voyages + imperial
voyages

20.  James Cook
 1778
 South Pacific Ocean & Australia
 Geographer + Naval Officer in the British Royal Navy
 Zheng He
 15th Century
 7 voyages
 Reached East Africa
 Sent by ruling faction in Beijing

21.  European empires were created and managed by
private businesses
 VOC
 Established 1602
 1603 – first arrived in Indonesia
 1800 – Indonesia became a national colony of the Dutch
state
 British East India Company
 Conquered India 1757
 1858 - the British crown nationalized India

22.  1781
 James Watt
 Steam Engine
 The problem of industrial revolution
 Increased production, lack of consumption
 Solution?
 Consumerism

25.  Main contributing factors to the new era of peace:
 The price of war has gone up dramatically
 Nuclear
 The profit of war declined
 Peace has become more profitable than ever before

28.  Within a few decades or couple of centuries at most,
Homo Sapiens will disappear
 Not extinct, but evolve
 Singularity
 Our world of meaning collapsed completely
 Our identity will become irrelevant
 When?
 Nobody really knows
 2050?
 100-300 years later?

31.  http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Australopithecus_afarensis.JPG
 http://www.archeolog-home.com/medias/images/1-neanderthal.jpg
 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Homo_floresiensis_a
dult_female_-_model_of_head_-
_Smithsonian_Museum_of_Natural_History_-_2012-05-17.jpg
 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Large_bonfire.jpg
 http://www.theartnewspaper.com/imgart/lion-man-ulm.jpg
 http://timewellness.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/gossip.jpg?w=480&h=320&cr
op=1
 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Kangur.rudy.drs.jpg
 http://www.novatel.com/assets/Web-Phase-2-2012/Industry-
Pages/Agriculture.png
 http://www.qacps.k12.md.us/mms/george/gilgameshpicture.jpg
 http://www.bestmediums.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/dove-of-
peace-3.jpg
 Video lectures from the course: “A Brief History of Humankind” at
Coursera.org