Moments later, he elaborated: “If I can’t observe the reality of my own breath for 10 seconds, how can I hope to observe the reality of the geopolitical system?” “I practice Vipassana meditation to see reality more clearly,” Harari said to the India Today Conclave, without so much as cracking a smile at the absurdity of the question. We should “want to want to know the truth,” he announced at the TED Conference. A hundred years from now it is quite likely that humans will disappear, and the earth will be populated by very different beings like cyborgs and A.I., Harari said to Paikin, asserting that it is difficult to predict “what kind of emotional or mental life such entities will have.” Diversify, he advised the university student, because the job market of 2040 will be very volatile. On occasion, he good-naturedly says that he doesn’t possess the powers of divination, then briskly moves on to answer the question with an authority that makes you wonder if indeed he does.

Harari’s manner is soft spoken, even shy, in these encounters. Does that help you get closer to the force? Is that where you get closer to the force?” - the moderator at the 2018 India Today Conclave “You are somebody who practices Vipassana.“At the end of Sapiens, you said we should be asking the question, ‘What do we want to want?’ Well, what do you think we should want to want?” - an audience member at TED Dialogues, Nationalism vs.“What I do, is it still relevant, and how do I prepare for my future?” - a student studying languages at the University of Antwerp.“A hundred years from now, do you think we will still care about being happy?” - Canadian journalist Steve Paikin, on the “ The Agenda with Steve Paikin”.Watch videos of Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the wildly successful book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and you will hear him being asked the most astonishing questions.

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