Is There a Bottleneck?

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Is it going to take a collapse, a crash, where we go through a bottle neck in order for us to survive? Or is there another kind of path through? I mean, it never happened before. With the evolution of life on earth, no kind of organism ever had this ability to hack itself and to re engineer itself. It could lead in very dangerous directions, but it really leads to places where our imagination fails us. And that's very, no disconcerting. One of the deepest urges or desires of every human being is to be really un stood.

Yuval Noah Harari is one of the rare historians who can give us a two-million-year perspective on today’s headlines. In this wide-ranging conversation, Yuval explains how technology and democracy have evolved together over the course of human history, from paleolithic tribes to city states to kingdoms to nation states. So where do we go from here? “In almost all the conversations I have,” Yuval says, “we get stuck in dystopia and we never explore the no less problematic questions of what happens when we avoid dystopia.” We push beyond dystopia and consider the nearly unimaginable alternatives in this special episode of Your Undivided Attention.