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What I try to focus on is not to try to stop the march of technological progress. Instead, I try toYuval Noah Harari:
We can suspend disbelief about Harry Potter, and we do the same thing with God, and we do the sameYuval Noah Harari:
Everybody since the '60s has been saying the nation is a fiction - the nation is an imaginary unityYuval Noah Harari:
If you take 10,000 chimpanzees and cram them together into Wembley Stadium or the Houses of ParliamYuval Noah Harari:
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I think, in general, medicine in the 21st century will switch from healing the sick to upgrading th