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Yuval Noah Harari on How to Overcome the Challenges Facing Humanity

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What will the future of humankind look like? And how will the all-powerful influence of technology will be decisive in shaping it?

Award-winning author of the best-seller, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari sits down with Professor Shanidha Bari to discuss the themes of his new book, Unstoppable Us Volume 1, aimed at a younger audience.

Harari’s latest book is aimed at children so it’s on the smaller side, but it’s still full of big ideas. In this conversation, he discusses what the future of humankind could look like and how the all-powerful influence of technology will be decisive in shaping it. He also explores why the Covid-19 pandemic has not led to a major cultural or political reset and discusses how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has interrupted the established international order. Running through it all is the idea that humans can still take charge of their own destinies.

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  • Yuval Noah Harari

    Historian and bestselling author

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  • Shahidha Bari

    Writer, academic and broadcaster

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Shahidha Bari

Writer, academic and broadcaster

Professor of Fashion Cultures and Histories at London College of Fashion at the University of the Arts London, and a Fellow of the Forum for Philosophy at the London School of Economics. She is a regular presenter of the BBC Radio 3's Arts and Ideas programme, Free Thinking, and an occasional presenter of BBC Radio 4's Front Row and Saturday Review. She contributes to Aeon, The Financial Times, Frieze art magazine, The Guardian, The Observer, The Times Literary Supplement and other publications. She is the author of Dressed: The Secret Life of Clothes.
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Yuval Noah Harari

Historian and bestselling author

After gaining a PhD in History from the University of Oxford, Harari now lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specialising in World History. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, published in 2014, has become an international phenomenon and is published in nearly 40 languages worldwide. It was on the Sunday Times bestseller list for over six month in paperback, and was a New York Times top ten bestseller.