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The speaker is saying he met his husband after returning to Israel from Oxford in 2002. The second sentence uses a playful comparison to describe his husband as something central and connected in his life, using a modern technology phrase in a personal way.
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About Yuval Noah Harari
Israeli historian and popular science writer
Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian, military historian, public intellectual, and popular science writer. He is a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is known for his widely read books on human history and the future. His first bestseller, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, grew out of lectures he gave to an undergraduate world history class. He later published Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. His work often examines free will, consciousness, intelligence, happiness, suffering, and the place of storytelling in human evolution.
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Books by Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens
2021
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
2018
Nexus
2024
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