The romantic ideal says that we can find it with our one true love. And the new technology offers to fulfil this ideal. It won't be your mother, or at least not human lover. But it will know exactly who you are,. and i will accept you as you and will even work in your best interest. What could be more attractive than that? I think about it in terms of just simple day-to-day events. You come back home from work and you're tired and you're a bit angry about something that happened at work and whatever. Your spouse doesn't notice it, because you see your spouse too busy with his or her own emotional issues. But your smart refrigerator
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.