i think what we've seen is a 20 year trajectory of technology. Yet we kept assuming it was going to be 20, 30 years out, tha technology would take over human agency. But by completely high jacking our lowest instincts and the information all of us get, it's really taken over the way that, frankly, all human history has been driven by machines. And if i have no morals, the least ethical actor wins. The one that is most willing to use a eye to just find what tends to get the most clicks for most works. It will succeed at creating the maximum fantasy land, the max mum detachment from reality which will actually out compete the regular stories that we
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.