Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

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Yes. You should definitely read this one.Well absolutely definitely the first 40 pages for everyone, and the last 50 or so for nearly everyone. That's the ancient humans (could have spent more of his book on them - really well written, conversational tone) and the future taken care of.
And in between? The industrial and the scientific revolutions, and sort of combining lots of history from everywhere into his thesis, in a very entertaining way. It's sort of philosophy, sort of history, and really thought provoking. If I were him, I'd have done a 250 pager on the ancient humans, and the rest of history in his second book.

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