Asa has this line that the world is getting more and more virtual overtime, and we have to make reality real again. The interesting thing here is that it's really forcing us as a species to stare face to face in the mirror with who we really are and how we work. And i think we've also been atrophying the places where we could find that fulfilment on our own.
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.