‘We Just Don’t Need the Vast Majority of the Population’ in Today’s World
WEF Adviser Yuval Harari: ‘We Just Don’t Need the Vast Majority of the Population’ in Today’s World NICOLAS MAETERLINCK/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images ROBERT KRAYCHIK Yuval Noah Harari, historian, futurist, and World Economic Forum (WEF) adviser, said, “We just don’t need the vast majority of the population” in the early 21st century given modern technologies’ rendering human labor economically and militarily “redundant.” Harari’s remarks were made in an interview with Chris Anderson, the head of TED, published on Tuesday. He assessed…