History usually was so important politically that it was never left to the historians. And most people, they were kind of flooded with just this information about the history of the nation,. It's not a new phenomenon. I think about things like the witch hunts in the Middle Ages or in the early modern period. So we should be glad that medieval humans didn't have the internet because it would have been much worse.
How did humans come to create society? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Yuval Noah Harari, historian and author of “Sapiens” & “Unstoppable Us,” discuss our species’ ability to cooperate, the role of artificial intelligence, and more.
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