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

Your Undivided Attention

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How to Take Over a Foreign Country

We have already uder the control not just a the te nagers with the likes on instagram, but also even the dictators. To take over a foreign country as a colony, you don't need to send in soldiers. You just need to take the data. And we've seen examples of this with google maps, that people will follow the direction of google maps literally leading off of a, you know, the deck, or something like that. The kind of old style gunship diplomacy is being replaced by a new kind of data colonialism.

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