And the third principle is that- never allow all the data to be concentrated in one place.

In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us. As technology renders jobs obsolete, what will keep us busy Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari examines ‘the useless class’ and a new quest for purpose Yuval Noah Harari Mon. Professor Harari was born in Haifa, Israel, to Lebanese parents in 1976. Another key rule, that whenever you increase surveillance of individuals you should simultaneously increase surveillance of the corporation and governments and the people at the top. What makes us Sapiens One of the worlds preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human. 'One key rule is that if you get my data, the data should be used to help me and not to manipulate me. You cannot regulate the explosive power of artificial intelligence on a national level,' says Harari, who tells Cooper what he feels needs to be done. 'Certainly, now we are at the point when we need global cooperation. It is massively engaging and continuously interesting. It is a brilliant, thought-provoking odyssey through human history with its huge confident brush strokes painting enormous scenarios across time. The next phase is surveillance going under our skin,' he warns. I much enjoyed Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.

What we have seen so far, it's corporations and governments collecting data about where we go, who we meet, what movies we watch. 'It's data about what's happening inside my body. Eventually within 10 or 20 or 30 years such algorithms could also tell you what to study at college and where to work and whom to marry and even whom to vote for,' says Harari.Īnd he points out, the pandemic has opened the door to even more intrusive collection of our data.

'Netflix tells us what to watch and Amazon tells us what to buy.

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