“We are all living together on a single planet, which is threatened by our own actions. And if you don't have some kind of global cooperation, nationalism is just not on the right level to tackle the problems, whether it's climate change or whether it's technological disruption.”

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.