

Negative: our diet changes to wheat-based instead of plants, vegetables, etc. A “revolution.” But Yuval argues that farming and harvesting wheat was actually a negative to the species in many ways. We were moving.īut history books have branded the Agricultural Revolution as a good thing. We weren’t sitting at desks or managing cash register machines.

Yuval says “Life was much more colorful and rich 10,000 years ago.” Here’s 3 things Yuval Noah Harari made me question: This interview is probably the most thought-provoking interview I’ve ever aired.
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In the new book, Yuval explore so many topics: “the myth of free will,” the rise of robots, algorithms, hackers, how the Automation Revolution will impact the economy, your job, your quality of life and so on. That’s how we got the trilogy: “Sapiens,” “Homo Deus” and “21 Lessons for the 21st Century.” By the time they get tenure, they forgot what they really wanted to do.

“Yeah, that’s true, but for many people it’s too late. “But a lot of people get tenure,” I said. He’s a history professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. And I no longer had to feel the publish or perish pressure.” “One thing is that I got tenure at the university. Because you were writing about knights and medieval fighting and then suddenly you write the three smartest books ever written.” “I feel like 8 years ago you must’ve had a tumor or a stroke. “What happened in your life where you decided to be the smartest person on the planet?” I asked. He used to write about things nobody cared about. There’s a huge pyramid of research beneath each story Yuval writes about.īut it wasn’t always this way. Mark Zuckerberg and Barack Obama are also advocates of Yuval’s books. I’ve recommended his book, “Sapiens” more than any other book in the past 5 years. He writes international bestsellers about our species.Īnd no. I was asking Yuval because this is one of the things he writes about in his new book “21 Lessons for the 21st Century,” which Bill Gates recommended in a New York Times article last week. But when does it start to get darker? And how can we protect ourselves? Coca-Cola is trying to hack you and the Russians, the American government, the Chinese… They are all trying to hack you right now,” Yuval Noah Harari said on my podcast.īut there are different levels of hacking.Īmazon wants to sell you stuff. “Right now, there is somebody out there who is trying to hack you.
