First published at 09:12 UTC on February 10th, 2022.
* Humanity faces three existential threats this century, warned historian Yuval Harari at Davos 2020.
* Technology risks dividing the world into wealthy elites and exploited "data colonies," he explained.
* "If you like the World Cu…
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* Humanity faces three existential threats this century, warned historian Yuval Harari at Davos 2020.
* Technology risks dividing the world into wealthy elites and exploited "data colonies," he explained.
* "If you like the World Cup - you are already a globalist," he said, making the case for better cooperation to tackle the challenges.
As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first Century, humanity faces so many issues and questions, that it is really hard to know what to focus on. So I would like to use the next twenty minutes to help us focus of all the different issues we face. Three problems pose existential challenges to our species.
These three existential challenges are nuclear war, ecological collapse and technological disruption. We should focus on them.
Now nuclear war and ecological collapse are already familiar threats, so let me spend some time explaining the less familiar threat posed by technological disruption.
One of the sources (official Youtube-account of the World Economic Forum!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw9FSYH6kL8
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