Harari, Yuval Noah
<p>Mar 30, 2018 01:58 PM</p>
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many outstanding YouTubes. See eg his interview at Davos this year by FT editor Gillian Tett.</p>
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big data will come to include brain/ physio monitoring...
eg a bracelet on each citizen of North Korea that records their reactions to their dear leader.
(1984 to the max!) Obviously totalitarian/ authoritarian regimes will excel at this
tech. Just another marker pointing to the imminent end of humanity as we know it.</p>
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Harari is a great prophet of doom; but contrast with the Pollyanish Steve Pinker.
(I'm usually one of Steve's fans, but have my reservations)</p>
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Yuval is age 42; Historian; tenured prof at Hebrew Univ.</p>