Democracy is built on specific information technology, and now we are living in the middle of an immense revolution in information technology.
This may be the root cause, not any disagreement about some idea or policy of the upheaval we see in democracy, not just in the US, but in many other countries as well.
Yuval Noah Harari is a historian and philosopher whose books — "Sapiens," "Homo Deus," "21 Lessons for the 21st Century," and most recently "Unstoppable Us: How Humans Took Over the World" — have sold more than 40 million copies. He joins Rufus for a wide-ranging conversation about storytelling, life in the Stone Age, the future of democracy, and the threat of AI.