5 Lessons For The 21st Century: How To Survive & Thrive In The New World | Yuval Noah Harari
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🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 116 minutes
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The future of jobs, democracy and humanity are constantly changing and constantly being threatened with the rise of technology. With the rise of social media, biotech, and infotech covering everything from your social life, your online life, to your healthcare, algorithms and artificial intelligence are inescapable and highly influencing your decisions, thoughts and emotional state.
Yuval Noah Hariri is best known for the profound and influential work he did giving a complete overview of human history in his bestseller, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Yuval looks at how technology and cultural beliefs impact human progress.
Yuval is a historian and professor of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the co-founder of the social impact company Sapienship. In this episode with Yuval, we’re forced to question, what are the real issues we’re facing as humanity?
Even more importantly, are you prepared to survive and thrive in this world shaped by data, biotech, algorithms, and corruption?
Yuval and Tom explores ideas around
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| 0:00.0 | If you're a Chinese emperor like 2,000 years ago, |
| 0:03.0 | one of your biggest problems in life |
| 0:05.0 | is that if you give too much power to your ministers and generals, |
| 0:09.0 | they might rebel against you, the will to power, |
| 0:12.0 | and want to kill you and your family and establish their dynasty. |
| 0:17.0 | And they found a solution, which is based on bioengineering. |
| 0:21.7 | Now, you can ask bioengineering 2,000 years ago in China? |
| 0:25.1 | Yes, it's called castration. |
| 0:27.2 | Whoa. |
| 0:28.1 | Custration is bioengineering. |
| 0:29.6 | You take a man, you cut something off, you get a different kind of man that is perfectly fit for the purposes of the emperor. |
| 0:38.9 | I didn't know they did that. |
| 0:39.9 | Yeah, eunuchs. I knew eunuchs existed. I didn't know they were generals. |
| 0:44.7 | You had unique generals and unique ministers because they pose much less of a threat. |
| 0:50.1 | They can't establish their own dynasty. |
| 0:51.9 | Wow. And you had in, there are periods in Chinese history when most of the imperial administration was Unix. |
| 0:59.7 | Do you have a dark view of humanity? |
| 1:01.5 | Like, you know, you want a government job? |
| 1:04.0 | Yes, just give us your testicles and then give you a government job. |
| 1:08.1 | And this was not just China. |
| 1:09.8 | You see the same thing happening in the Byzantine |
| 1:12.1 | empire, in the caliphate, in the Islamic caliphate, because this was kind of by engineering |
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