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About 15,000 years ago, humans colonised America, wiping out in the process about 75% of its large mammals. Numerous other species disappeared from Africa, from Eurasia, and from the myriad islands around their coasts. The archaeological record of country after country tells the same sad story.

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In 1989, with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of communism, it seemed that the liberal story had won. The liberal story says that humankind is inevitably marching towards a global society of free markets and democratic politics.

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Those who refuse to liberalise and globalise are doomed to failure.

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In the 1990s and 2000s, the liberal story shaped not only the foreign policy of the United States and its allies, but also the domestic policies of governments across the world, from South Africa to Indonesia.

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I'm not a very glamorous person. I like to just sit alone in a room and read a book or meditate.

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The most dangerous thing about terrorism is the over-reaction to it.

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Since the beginning of the computer age, there has been immense development in computer intelligence but exactly zero development in computer consciousness.

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If you don't like the word 'religion,' you can replace it with 'ideology' - it's largely the same thing. At the heart of both religion and ideology is the question of authority and where authority is coming from.

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Having raised humanity above the beastly level of survival struggles, we will now aim to upgrade humans into gods and turn Homo sapiens into Homo deus.

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I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

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Biography

Nationality: Israeli

Type: Historian

Born: February 24th, 1976

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