From neanderthals to cyborgs
He's a historian, futurist and social critic all rolled into one. Yuval Noah Harari sees his role as a bridge between academia and the public, to explain simply the story of humankind, both its history and technology.
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Annabeth Leow
FOR a best-selling author who doesn't hold back on certain politicians, historian Yuval Noah Harari seems a tad reserved in person.
Can this diffident, bespectacled 42-year-old academic, sitting stiffly on the sofa of his hotel suite, be the man French magazine Le Point would put on its cover in September captioned "The most important thinker in the world"?
But, as Dr Harari warms up, he goes from toying with his glass of water to pronouncing the ideas that have propelled him to stardom: "The most real thing in the world is suffering", or "There are no gods or banks or states in the world, objectively".
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