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Two Million Years in Two Hours: A Conversation with Yuval Noah Harari

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Are Democracies Possible in the Physics of the 20th Century?

There's a physics that makes some things possible, things not. And we're moving now into an area where the big question in my mind is, are our kinds of democracies possible in the physics of the 20 first century? I think that the answer is yes, because of this ability of democracies to reinvent themselves. But we still don't know what shape they will take. They will have to be quite different from the democracies we know to day. We need to remind ourselves democracy is not just about election. There's just one tool in the tulkit. The soul, the heart of democracy, is not this ceremony of going once every four years to cast your ballot. What new forms

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