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Is Inequality About to Get Unimaginably Worse?

The Inquiry

Episode: Is Inequality About to Get Unimaginably Worse?
Website: The Inquiry
Feed URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p029399x/episodes/downloads.rss
Duration: 00:23:05
Published: 2017-04-27 03:30

Yuval Noah Harari, the author of Sapiens and Homo Deus, explores the long history of inequality – from the Stone Age onwards – and asks whether we are on the brink of creating a huge “economically useless” underclass, unable to keep up with enhanced humans, the owners of increasingly valuable data and, eventually, artificial intelligence.

Presenter: Ruth Alexander Producer: Estelle Doyle Editor: Richard Knight

(Photo: Yuval Noah Harari, Credit: Daniel Thomas Smith)

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