No one can stop climate from changing, mainly because it's been changing like this for over a billion years.

Friedman's optimism is flexible enough to support any war that the Pentagon wants.

I watch this and all I can think is Friedman needs to meditate for two hours a day. He seems so anxious and non self aware. Harari definitely has a better grasp of the issues we will deal with in the future.

I find it fascinating how many comments are rooting for Yuval, as if he was their home team, and this was a competition... I think you're missing the point if you think this was a debate or that one person is better than the other. Two different people with two different skill sets and knowledge bases, discussing complex issues and each offering a different perspective than the other. Between those two there is a lot of good information and I am sure both people find the other to be intelligent and helpful in spreading knowledge. Moving beyond the mindset of rooting for the home team, or needing to win over another is critical in moving forward as a species, and I think both speakers would agree.

Everyone, you don't have to insult someone to emphasize the greatness of someone. Yuval Harari would never appreciate that.

The contrast between Harrari and Friedman is very helpful for identifying real scientific analysis vs memorized bag of flashy jargon.

Wow. That was fascinating, from two men I have admired for a long time. Now I'll do something I've never done--rarely with books, never with video: listen to it again. Thank you so much, gentlemen and excellent moderator. (I'm from the US, living for 50 years in Israel.)

If you only care about Yuval and not the others. Yuval on the Global Agenda: 0:53 Yuval on the Mother Nature: 16:36 Yuval on the Present Situation: 18:55 Yuval on the Adaptation to modern fast changes and dangers of personal data analysis and discrimination: 33:00 Yuval continuing on the dangers of personal data analysis: 43:44 Yuval on the Complexity of today's cause-effect system: 54:41 (Yuval being aware of our online cat video spam phenomena: 59:49 just kidding) Yuval on Pessimism, Optimism and the duality of whats important in different places at one time on the unfold of history: 1:09:00 Yuval on his next book (which is out) "21st lessons for the 21 century": 1:14:00 Yuval last comments on the last election and journalism: 1:22:15

A very good conversation between two persons who actually think before they talk. Brilliant minds.

That was amazing! It's now 6:13AM and I found myself stimulated and hanging on almost every word two guys sitting in chairs had to say. Whoever was responsible for putting together this discussion and getting it on you tube, thank you!

Harari will get Noble prize soon. He explain everything in a simple way, very real guy

Listening to Friedman sitting beside Harari, couldn't help but think "artificial" intelligence has another meaning.

A brilliant discussion from such different viewpoints... thank you for posting this.

Harari's arguments are profound.

Major takeaway from Friedman's part: The term 'social contract' has been redefined to mean: AT&T employees will have to die from sleep deprivation and stress-related disease before the age of 40.

The look on Yuval when the host cut him short at the end 😂

I read Lexus and the Olive tree in university. Unforgetable experience! It talks about everything, not just one subject.

Fantastic to have both of them together !

Yuval Noah Harari and Thomas L. Friedman great discussion. I was astonished by so many negative comments about Thomas L. Friedman. They are different characters with different personalities. Yuval it's more of a humble guy. Friedman maybe not so much, but i don't understand lots of hate comments on him. First time Friedman got my attention was a speech at Yale university. That was an eye opening speech. But anyways, what strikes me the most is, on a discussion about "The Future of Humanity" they haven't talked about many topics that i believe are so important, such as: 1) Violent games industry 2) The amount of time most of the people spend watching trash/meaningless content such as cats videos, or on social media...Yuval concerns about the future of education of the kids...that thing about artificial inteligence knowing you better than yourself... The term that comes to my mind it's "Natural selection" - If you choose to spend most of the time, consuming meaningless content, the algorythm will learn that and keep feeding you with more nonsense content. Also the opposite is truth. I believe in the future, we won't need to go after a job. the companies will go after us, since they will know us better than we do, based on how we use technology and the use we make out of it.

Thomas L. Friedman... an actor Yuval Noah Harari... a thinker

Great comments Thomas, thank you

To me this was an astonishingly insightful experience with two men of immense intelligence and different backgrounds offering their views for the benefit of the viewers. I loved it and I thank the New York Times and UKposts for making it available. More please!

Yuval is genius

Harari and Chomsky... bring it on... please!

So enlightening and clear language from both giants about what concerns us all.

Friedman is a corporate tool and Mr. Justin Lee Miller's comment on Friedman being a "car salesman persona" is right on.

Harari is interesting and Friedman is difficult to take. He gives pompousness a bad name.Harari is also simplistic. The idea that the machines will know us better than we know ourselves seems an unproven speculation. However his sense of the deep uncertainty regarding humanity's future seems correct.

If? You want to lose your freedoms to think for yourself and you want to have somebody think for you? This is the guy to listen to

I am watching it in July, 2020. Two years after this talk, the discussion is more insightful.

One cannot underestimate the power of Yuval's meditative practices when it comes to his salient cognitive abilities and overall awareness.

Most relevant and fresh analysis VS motivational speaker from the world of Office Space

Every time Yuval Harari speaks listen. As soon as the other guy speaks just jump to the next time Yuval speaks. Do that and this is a good talk.

Understanding more and Fearing Less: Thank you both for an interesting talk, hopefully we'll heed to Listen.

Friedman: “The glass is half full”. Harari: “The glass is half terrifying”

Good debate with 2 points of view, from 2 excellent speakers and thinkers. In terms of style, Yuval wins, while Friedman seems too chatty.

Yuval is brilliant, and nice.

Friedman brings down the level of this entire discussion. He is an apologist for Neo-Liberalism and a corporatist shill. Going into to this, I was curious to see if Friedman has raised his game and I was disappointed. Harari is the one who really is looking at the big picture.

The scariest thing isn't the outside world, it's our mind! Currently we still couldn't understand how our consciousness work and it's the biggest problem we are gonna face together.

Yuval . . “No stories” . . Friedman . . “Only stories”

I've never heard Friedman make a prediction based on his assessment of the present and not be wrong.

People may have information and skills but not understanding and commonsense, making them so more evolved than a computer. Understanding and commonsense are highly under rated.

I am not a big fan of the NYT but Thomas L. Friedman seems like a nice guy. In times of change you need calm people.

I didn't think it was possible but Yuval look even more intelligent and profound than he normally sounds. Or maybe its just that Friedman keeps blabbering inane stuff about AT&T and uploading pictures on social media :/

Great ideas to think about!

Thank you. More please.

These comments are refreshingly smart and thoughtful. Yes, Friedman is old and has a lot of cute predigested soundbites, but he's well versed and makes some good points. Harari is an academician. He's better read, less cliche in his thinking, and a bit younger. I find it encouraging that the next generation is smarter and better informed than my own.

Mr. Friedman, what does "Applied Hope" means. Can you guide me to the info? Thanks.

When will we have a debate between Elon Musk and Yuval Harrari

thanks, good to continue this now and later

Yup! Friedman would do himself a favor by not talking . . .

Freedman is analyzing past, Harrari predicts a future, and does it very scientifically.

Great Conversation.

To prevent depression , on every day living , I think about what Friedman believes , and to prevent nativity , stupidity in long term ,I need to remember what prof. Harari believes !

Freidman good story teller. Yuval talks sensible things

Relationship goals: the couple holding hands in the back (27:42)

The discussion is truly worthwhile watching. Both of them are Masters in their own spheres. Harari is as usual at his clinical best. I would have agreed more to Mr Friedman if could able to give examples beyond America. Many of his arguments does not fit beyond America. I understand that he was talking on the upside (on accelerated change in technology, etc), but are less implementable or pragmatic in third world countries. I think Mr Harari is bang on most of the issues discussed. I see this way. If technology has solved most of the problems of humans and presume that it made sapien's life more comfortable, then why most of the Humans are not Happy ??

for me it is so obvious at Harrari is explaining something useful for all of us around the planet and Friedman is promoting himself and the USA and getting half of it wrong.

Mr. Harari,, is much more of a human being of the humanity

I truly believe that human beings have already evolved out of this planet atleast once, while the rest of us were left behind.

Friedman is totally outclassed by a legitimate thinker.

Good discussion!

He has one of the coolest accents I've ever heard.

Thanks

Yuval Noah Harari is talking about humanity and AI. Friedman is talking about the talks he's delivered, a world that consists only of the United States, and what his perspective of his own importance is.

Love and listen Yaval.. You are a true prophet.A holy man.

How Friedman interrupted Harari when he was talking about the problem of lacking a self motivation ... and then jumped to Algorthim talk is really silly thing to do for listner trying to follow the talk and learn from it.

Yuval is deep thought, bare to the bone

I enjoy watching brilliant minds collide.

Friedman adds the reality of optimism in how movements begin from his uniquely Midwest Jewish American roots. The two played off each other well.

Where is the Airbnb experience thing that Friedman is talking about? Can anyone find it?

Friedman loves himself ... but would the NYT algorithm say he is on top of his game???

Appreciate Harari's work to bring people into the debate!

We see the difference between a true intellectual and someone, lacks on intellectuality, is not able to understand cause-effect relationship, arrogantly keeps repeating how important and successful he is.

ThisThomas Friedman guy sure does like speaking in metaphors... He spins his stories like a grandfather and not like a journalist;)

Mr. Friedman is out of his depth here. Utterly ordinary viewpoint; no imagination, no vision. Yuval, on the other hand, is genius. Pure. Visionary.

I love how Harari calls Friedman on the greatness of his eternal learner's utopia. "Yes, we're headed there, but it sounds awfully stressful". Friedman is smart b ut his constant self-promotion is so tiring.

Harari dictates while appearing to be informed, charming & helpful. And because he's informed, charming & helpful, never gets challenged.

Poor Friedman, he is so desperate to talk about himself and his country. Short vision. Yuval has a clear big picture of humans and the world.

love you yuval

I much admire Harari and share with many of his views. I did not know Thomas Friedman until I watched this debate. I find many of the comments about Friedman unfair, undeserved and sometimes almost insulting.

Superb

What scares me the most is that nowadays nobody knows what to teach children either at home or in schools...

מפגש מרתק ומשכיל !!!

Winning formula for success in future - Focus on human needs and provide a better easier cheaper faster solution + work for yourself + get better at human and money skills + embrace change + learn investment + remain agile = you'll be fine no matter what world throws at you

Two smart people opining on the world. What a treat!

Liked very much what Friedman said about adaptive communities!

(Pancha Chandra): ' Leave The World Behind! is another feather in Yuval Noah Harari's cap!

For the presenter I have to say that I love your nose, very well shaped, and congratulation for the moderation of the debate. For the giants of knowlledge in the debate thanks for helping us diving in the future, above all a uncertain future...

The paradox is that labor saving devices “save” labor, not using it, thereby making it useless. Unless we can find new ways to employ ourselves, to be useful.

So encouraged by these comments :-)

Nature goes on forever for everyone and everything to return as everyone and everything an infinite number of times through evolutionary processes. 🌌

absolutely superb.. repeat.. what minds.. mama mia..

Why do they still invite Friedman to speak??? Especially with someone as clear and as intelligent as Harari. Why would Harari agree to share the stage with a 'cliche'??

Mind blowing. Futuristic but not fictional

Old cultures have to fade as they are incapable of change. The new comes in and takes over until it, in its turn, is incapable of change. Thomas Friedman makes perfect sense, smart guy.

Genius Yuval with these 2 in the "New York Times"! haha It´s like time travel for him. I liked the light trick they tried to put them all at the same "special" level. He didn´t let them have even that

I admire him !! He is brilliant!!!

Pure gold !

I like Yuval Harari , i have learnt alot from him

_Please add English subtitles..._