Work Classification Layer
Compare Works
Pick two or more works to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension passages, and shared school embodiments side by side. Especially useful for author-stage comparisons (Wittgenstein early vs late) and for setting a single tradition's foundational texts against each other.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Harari's 2018 essays — 21 contemporary challenges from artificial intelligence to nationalism to terrorism
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where works disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid is shown.
| Attribute | 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Mid) |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Finite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Non-Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Non-Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Partial |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Partial |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | None |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Reason |
| Observer · Theological Method | — |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Variable |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Variable |
| Information · Granularity | Discrete |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The 2018 contemporary moment of late-2010s political-technological crisis.
Space
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The global political-technological setting.
Matter
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The embodied global human population facing biological-political-technological challenges.
Observer
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The macro-historical-philosophical popular-essayist as proper observer.
Energy
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The political-technological energies of the contemporary moment.
Information
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The 21 essays' political-philosophical content.
Internal Tensions
Where each work's argument pulls against itself.
The book has been variously assessed — defenders see proper popular-philosophical engagement with contemporary issues, critics see Davos-friendly technocratic sensibility.