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‘We should never underestimate human stupidity’

Prof. Harari speaks to CNBC about leadership, highlighting that populists are selling “nostalgic fantasies about the past instead of real visions for the future.”

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Hollywood Announces: New Adaptation of ‘Sapiens’ by Yuval Noah Harari

“Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Alien) and Oscar-winning documentarian Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna) are teaming together to adapt the international best-seller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Israeli professor Yuval Noah Harari.”

 

The exciting collaboration was announced by The Hollywood Reporter, highlighting that Prof. Harari’s bestselling book will be brought to new audiences through the medium of film. Prof. Harari has said:

“We hope to mix science, fiction, history, drama and genius in order to bring to life the incredible journey of our species, that began as an insignificant animal and is now on the verge of becoming a god”.

Between its publication in 2011 and the end of 2017, Sapiens has sold 8 million copies worldwide. It has been recommended by Barack Obama, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.

The screen adaptation of the book is currently in development, so watch this space for more news!

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Rewriting the rule book after a cult best-seller

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Q&A on Being Gay

Prof. Yuval Noah Harari presents a scientific perspective on homosexuality, and shares how this has affected his personal experience of being gay.

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Why Fascism Is So Tempting and How Your Data Could Power It

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Brexit Will Not Halt Drive to ‘Human Unification’

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Israel +70 Project

Drawing on parts of Prof. Harari’s presentation at the WEF 2018, this animation offers a condensed hypothesis of how the infotech and biotech revolutions could affect the future of life on earth.

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VPRO

What will our world look like 25 years from now? How equal will our society be? Watch Yuval Noah Harari and Kevin Kelly explore the big questions about the future of humankind in relation to technology, in this VPRO documentary. Here, Prof. Harari sketches the history of tomorrow and analyzes the way in which we create our own illusions; illusory institutions such as religion, states and money, and gods we believe in because we want to be them ourselves.

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The Future of Humanity: Yuval Noah Harari in Conversation with Thomas L. Friedman

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What’s Next for Humanity: Automation, New Morality and a ‘Global Useless Class’

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