The main aim was to bring science to more people. We saw now is the danger of what happens if a you leave the arena open to all these conspiracy theories and fake news, she says. The whole idea was how to stay loyal to the basic facts but discover new ways of telling science. And it was the most fun project i ever worked on.
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.