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60 Minutes

10/31/2021: Democracy Lost, A New Model, The Future of Sapiens

60 Minutes

CBS News

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On this week's "60 Minutes," Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega has tightened his grip on power by making dozens of arrests of political opponents, journalists and protesters. Sharyn Alfonsi speaks to the wives of two imprisoned men who were planning to oppose Ortega in next week's elections. Lesley Stahl reports on a group of architects inspired by a project in Rwanda to create a new model of design. And in an interview with Anderson Cooper, world-renowned author Yuval Harari warns humans will be "hacked" if artificial intelligence is not globally regulated.

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It's easier than you may imagine.

0:44.3

This is Juan Sebastian Chamorro, a Georgetown educated economist who was planning to challenge

0:50.3

the dictator Daniel Ortega for president of Nicaragua. This video was recorded just hours before he was violently taken from his home by mass police officers.

1:04.0

In it, he says, if you're seeing this, I've been captured.

1:10.0

We Americans spend 90% of our time inside buildings.

1:16.2

Well, we found a group of young architects who have set out to create a new model of architecture,

1:22.1

one that is both beautiful and healthy for the people who build and use them.

1:32.3

Inspiration, they say they got in Africa and have now brought home. What you were doing in Rwanda, you were also doing in Haiti, Malawi, and Poughkeepsie.

1:40.3

Yvall Noah Harari is a world-renowned historian who's looked into the future

1:47.8

and is more than a little concerned about what he sees.

1:51.5

We'll soon have the power to re-engineer our bodies and brains, whether it is with genetic

1:58.2

engineering or by directly connecting brains to computers,

2:03.4

or by creating completely non-organic entities, artificial intelligence,

2:10.1

and these technologies are developing at breakneck speed.

2:15.3

I'm Leslie Stahl.

2:17.0

I'm Bill Whitaker. I'm Anderson Cooper. I'm Sharon Alfonci. I'm Leslie Stahl. I'm Bill Whitaker.

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