Were the Australian extinction an isolated event, we could grant humans the benefit of the doubt. But the historical record makes Homo sapiens look l… - Yuval Noah Harari

Homo sapiens look like an ecological serial killer.

So at twenty-five you introduce yourself on a dating site as ‘a twenty-five-year-old heterosexual woman who lives in London and works in a fashion shop’. At thirty-five you say you are ‘a gender-non-specific person undergoing age-adjustment, whose neocortical activity takes place mainly in the NewCosmos virtual world, and whose life mission is to go where no fashion designer has gone before’.

Yet in truth the lives of most people have meaning only within the network of stories they tell one another.

In a world in which everything is interconnected, the supreme moral imperative becomes the imperative to know.