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Harari: how our technocapitalism has killed your soul

Harari: how our technocapitalism has killed your soul
Israeli historian, philosopher and essayist Yuval Noah Harari speaks to the audience at the Davos Forum in 2020.
25.08.2023

In our time we are immersed in a “powerful reality” that increasingly invades, pervades and conditions our lives. Until the first decades of the last century, our relationships and information were limited to personal contacts, school, political events, which imposed themselves almost without our participation, and the press, which told us, in a very partial way, about the world. Then came radio, then television, the Internet, the smartphone, and finally artificial intelligence (AI). Technology and information have become very powerful and highly invasive tools that overwhelmingly enter our lives modifying and, increasingly, shaping our minds, not for personal growth, but with the sole aim of conforming them to the multifaceted single thought, functional only and exclusively to the ruling classes.