Trust and how it shapes the world

Trust thought for today - about trust and stories and how they shape the world.

Intrigued by this fascinating article by Darshana Narayanan, the post and the comments underneath. On the one hand I agree, Harari is a genius storyteller and his books are so readable and incredibly impressive in their breadth and scale and having specialists nitpick some of the tiny details feels almost churlish. On the other he is taken seriously by important people and if the conclusions he comes to are based on dodgy assumptions this is a problem. For me there was a sort of fatalism about his view of AI and the future of human life that I never agreed with but struggled to challenge in the face of his brilliance!

As she says "There is nothing predetermined about the fate of humanity".  Whether it is Harari's stories, Black Mirror, Sci Fi films or Silicon Valley predatory business models, we do not have to fulfil these prophecies.

As Rutger Bregman says in his wonderful book Humankind - a few blokes made up the way the world works in recent decades, we can all make it up in a better way this time round.

Which it reminds me was the basis of my most read WEF blog on The Building Blocks of The Great Reset.

https://lnkd.in/g8DhND9

Let's think again. "There is nothing predetermined about the fate of humanity". 

No TTFT for a week as off on hols, good food for thought to chew over on my way walking around Northumberland!