Why H.G. Wells' World Brain and Yuval Harari's Hackable Human Will Not Succeed
Why H.G. Wells' World Brain and Yuval Harari's Hackable Human Will Not Succeed A Study on the Abolition of Man Cynthia Chung The following is the transcript of a lecture I delivered this past March in Basel, Switzerland as part of the Kernpunkte Kongress . For the audio version of this lecture refer here. Why H.G. Wells' World Brain and Yuval Harari's Hackable Human Will Not Succeed A Study on the Abolition of Man By Cynthia Chung In 2018 Yuval Harari delivered a presentation to the World Economic Forum titled "Will the Future Be Human?" In his presentation, Harari seemed to be confirming our very worst fears of a dystopic future right out of a sci-fi movie. That we risked annihilating ourselves if we continued down the path we were already on as we progressed into an age of advanced technology. These stark predictions by Harari were received almost as if he were a prophet, his visions of the future he was certain would come about, but he was unclear as to ...