The best-selling author of Nexus speaks with the Globe about the challenges of AI, why the Bible needs a rewrite and the future of humankind
Yuval Noah Harari’s books have sold 45 million copies worldwide in more than 40 languages. In his new book,, Harari focuses on one of the most critical conversations of our time:I met him at his hotel the morning after his onstage interview at the Toronto International Festival of Authors.He is a slim, small, balding man with a narrow face, soft voice, and an easy smile, polite, welcoming, formal.
“There is a chapter in the book about the process of the canonization of the Bible … We have texts from the second and third and fourth centuries C.E.” “We are a social species,” Harari says. “Our success comes from our ability to connect thousands, millions of people into social networks.” Take the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “Russian propaganda which, unfortunately, has traction in the West, tells you that is about Russia being threatened by NATO. Yet there was no evidence of a threat. No massing military troops threatening Russia. It’s a fictional threat. To see its source, you need to read Putin’s own essays.
“Even in a place like Canada: if you think about the whole of human history, you can’t find a place where people have better lives than here in the 21st century. Of course, there are problems, but what other time or place in history was better? Yet here, too, people are so angry. Why? That’s the first question I would ask them. Because my suspicion is that to a large extent are responsible for the breakdown of conversation.
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