The Impact of Technology on Truth and Feelings

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A world built on feelings as the ultimate authority is collapsing due to the manipulation of human feelings through technology.
The foundations of our world are no longer relevant to the technology we have, leading to a philosophical bankruptcy.
The authority of feelings assumed to be unhackable has been proven false.
The source of meaning is no longer solely the heart.
Manipulation of human feelings has become increasingly easy with advancing technologies.
The crisis we face is deeper than just political issues, it is a philosophical crisis.

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.