Most money today in the world is just electronic data passing between computers. It works on the basis of a story, you have the greatest storytellers in the world - bankers and finance ministers. And yes, origin stories as you said are very, very important, they explain who we are. Unfortunately, in many parts of the world, maybe most of the part of the world,. the origin stories tend to be very narrow. They tell about the origin of just one human group, not of humanity as a whole.
Yuval Noah Harari is a historian and philosopher whose books — "Sapiens," "Homo Deus," "21 Lessons for the 21st Century," and most recently "Unstoppable Us: How Humans Took Over the World" — have sold more than 40 million copies. He joins Rufus for a wide-ranging conversation about storytelling, life in the Stone Age, the future of democracy, and the threat of AI.
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