About This Event

Join two of the world’s most influential thinkers for a live conversation about the forces reshaping our world and where we are heading. Yuval Noah Harari, historian and global bestselling author of Sapiens and Nexus, joins Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist and author of the new The Fight Back, to examine a world being remade by artificial intelligence, destabilised by climate change and geopolitical upheaval, and tested by democracies under strain. Harari has spent his career tracing the long arc of human history, from Sapiens to his most recent book, Nexus, an account of information networks from the Stone Age to AI. Ressa has confronted these forces firsthand, spending the past decade fighting disinformation and authoritarian power in the Philippines as CEO and co-founder of Rappler. Together, they will consider how power is shifting, what kind of world is taking shape, and how much control we still have over what comes next. Professor Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and the bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, the series Sapiens: A Graphic History and Unstoppable Us, and Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. His books have sold 55million copies in 65 languages, and he is considered one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals today. Maria Ressa is CEO, co-founder and President of Rappler, the Philippines's top digital news site. She is the current Nobel Laureate and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2021, the first Filipino in history to do so. Ressa won the UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize 2021 and was TIME Person of the Year in 2018. She has received countless awards for her work, including the Golden Pen of Freedom Award from the World Association of News Publishers. Her latest book is The Fight Back: A Citizen's Guide to Standing Up to Dictators.

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