Dr. Harari also compels us to look ahead, because over the last few decades humans have begun to bend laws of natural selection that have governed life for the past four billion years. We are acquiring the ability to design not only the world around us, but also ourselves. Where is this leading us and what do we want to become.
Prof. Yuval Noah Harari is the author of international bestsellers Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow.
Born in Haifa, Israel, in 1976, Harari received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2002 and is currently a lecturer at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.