A crisis can be a turning point for a society. Which way will we go now? Harari says many trends are not inevitable. He gives two examples: (1) Surveillance technology can be centralised or decentralised -- one supports authoritarianism, the other devolution (2) The crisis could accelerate the creation of a ‘useless’ class of people displaced by robots and other technologies but it need not be. Political decisions could be made to let them remain useful.
Read here (DW, April 22, 2020)
Worst ever Covid variant? Omicron
John Campbell shares his findings on Omicron. View here (Youtube, Nov 27, 2021)
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