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Oct 2018
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#049 Yuval Noah Harari - Are Our Childr...

Russell Brand
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Today we welcome back Yuval Noah Harari to Under The Skin where we discuss his new book 21 Lessons For The 21st Century. We tackle the idea of the rise useless class, the power of new A.I. technology and what we can do to combat this potential assault on our identity and role as human beings in world.

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