How Data could eat the world

'Homo sapiens is an obsolete algorithm': Yuval Noah Harari on how data could eat the world

By: Yuval Noah Harari

His magisterial history of humankind, Sapiens, was an international best seller. Now Yuval Noah Harari is back with a big new idea: Dataism

There's an emerging market called Dataism, which venerates neither gods nor man – it worships data. From a Dataist perspective, we may interpret the entire human species as a single data-processing system, with individual humans serving as its chips.

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