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Uval noah herrari is the author of sapience, homodeus and 21 lessons for the 20 first century. He talks about how technology has shattered our sense of reality only to restore it at an even scale. What happens when our feelings get increasingly decoupled from reality? The existential risk to humanity might be marketing because marketing represents the de coupling of how we see the world from what the world actually is.

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.