87. Yuval Noah Harari (Historian) – Time's Up

Think Again - a Big Think Podcast

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4.6 • 594 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives. Yuval Noah Harari holds a PhD in History from the University of Oxford and now lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in World History. His 2014 New York Times bestselling book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, is published in nearly 40 languages worldwide. His new book Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, uses historical and current trends to look at where we might we headed as a species. In this conversation, Harari and Jason discuss giving credit where it's due to genuine signs of human progress, and the dizzying ethical questions that surround what's coming next –– from superhuman cyborgs to algorithms that know us better than we know ourselves. Surprise conversation starter interview clips: Lawrence Levy on Pixar, mindfulness, and the Middle Way. Daniel Dennett on the evolution of cultural memes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Huh, have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?
0:03.0	Not much to it, is there?
0:06.0	Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.
0:09.0	Mmm, that is good.
0:13.0	Now that's what Asani should sound like.
0:15.0	Go all crisp in with walkers.
0:18.0	Delicious.
0:20.0	Hey there, I'm Jason Gottz and you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast.
0:29.5	Since 2008, Big Think has been a kind of online think tank of big ideas from some of the most
0:35.5	creative thinkers on the planet.
0:40.3	On the podcast, we revisit these ideas in new ways. Our producers surprise me and my guests,
0:42.3	with short interview clips from Big Things Archives,
0:45.3	ideas that we didn't necessarily come here prepared to discuss.
0:48.3	I'm very happy to be here today with Yuval Noah Harari.
0:52.3	He holds a PhD in history from Oxford University and now lectures
0:56.5	at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in world history. His 2014 New York Times
1:02.9	best-selling book Sapiens, a brief history of humankind, is published in nearly 40 languages
1:08.6	worldwide. His new book, Homodeus, A Brief History of Tomorrow,
1:13.6	uses historical and current trends to look at where we might be headed as a species.
1:18.6	Welcome to think again, Yvall.
1:20.6	Hello, it's good to be here.
1:21.6	It's really good to have you.
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