![]() In his fascinating new book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, the historian Yuval Noah Harari creates a useful framework for confronting these fears. Although most of us don’t need to lose too much sleep over bears these days, modern life does present plenty of other reasons for concern: terrorism, climate change, the rise of A.I., encroachments on our privacy, even the apparent decline of international cooperation. This is not necessarily a bad thing-after all, if a bear is stalking you, worrying about it may well save your life. How are we to arm ourselves in order to have a voice in such discussions? Who’s going to make the decisions that will affect not only our children but maybe the fate of humanity? Each society needs to deal with its own issues, but we also have very pressing global problems. Anyone you talk to will readily admit that the world it’s facing many challenges. ![]()
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