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"Will the future be human?" A video thread of Yuval Noah Harari @ the World Economic Forum meeting, 2018
We are living in the last generation of homo sapiens...
"We will learn to engineer bodies, brains, and minds. This will be the main products of the economy."
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"those who control the data, control the future not just of humanity, but the future of life itself."
World Economic Forum Meeting 2018
SPEAKER: Yuval Noah Harari
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If "the info-tech revolution merges with the bio-tech revolution what you get is the ability to hack human beings."
World Economic Forum Meeting 2018
SPEAKER: Yuval Noah Harari
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"imagine the situation in 10-20 years when an algorithm can tell any teenager exactly where he or she is on the gay-straight spectrum."
World Economic Forum Meeting 2018
SPEAKER: Yuval Noah Harari
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"once we have algorithms that can understand me better than I understand myself they could predict my desires manipulate my emotions & even take decisions on my behalf. & if we are not careful, the outcome might be, the rise of digital dictatorships."
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new tech may swing the pendulum and make "centralized data processing far more efficient than distributed processing. And, if democracy cannot adapt to these new conditions, then humans will come to live under the rule of digital dictatorships."
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"control of data might enable human elites to do something even more radical than just build digital dictatorships. By hacking organisms, elite's may gain the power to re-engineer the future of life itself."
World Economic Forum Meeting 2018
SPEAKER: Yuval Noah Harari
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"if indeed we succeed in hacking and engineering life, this will be not just the greatest revolution in the history of humanity, this will be the greatest revolution in biology since the very beginning of life."
World Economic Forum Meeting 2018
SPEAKER: Yuval Noah Harari
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"Science is replacing evolution by natural selection with evolution by intelligent design. Not the intelligent design of some god above the clouds, but our intelligent design."
World Economic Forum Meeting 2018
SPEAKER: Yuval Noah Harari
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"Science may enable life to break out into the inorganic realm".
After 4 billion years "we are entering the era of inorganic life shaped by intelligent design" - (intelligent design = human design - see post 9)
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SPEAKER: Yuval Noah Harari
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"this is why the ownership of data is so important. If we don't regulate it, a tiny elite may come to control not just the future of human societies, but the shape of life forms in the future."
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SPEAKER: Yuval Noah Harari
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I guess "some of the big corporations like google, like facebook, the usual suspects, they understand what is at stake. I also think that some gov'ts, especially the chinese gov't, they understand what's at stake"
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SPEAKER: Yuval Noah Harari
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"most humans have no idea" (of the coming human hackability)
"the bio-metric data is the key."
"What someone's really trying to hack is this (our brains)".
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SPEAKER: Yuval Noah Harari
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Gillian Tett: "so do you want the scientists to take control? Do you want the United Nations? Do you think the United Nations is capable? The World Economic Forum? I mean could all of the people here take control of this?"
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Yuval Noah Harari
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"people will give up their privacy in exchange for healthcare and maybe in many places they won't have a choice. They won't even get insurance if they're unwilling to give access to what is happening inside their bodies."
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Yuval Noah Harari
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Full Video: youtube.com

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