Yuval Noah Harari on Knowledge as an Inexhaustible Resource

“The traditional view of the world as a cake of fixed size assumes that there are only two types of resources on earth: raw materials and energy.

In reality, however, there are three types: raw materials, energy, and knowledge.

Raw materials and energy are finite – the more you consume, the less you have.

Knowledge, on the other hand, is a growing resource – the more you use it, the more you have.”

– Yuval Noah Harari in “Homo Deus – A History of Tomorrow”, C.H. Beck Publishing