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Is Inequality About to Get Unimaginably Worse?

Published: April 27, 2017, 1:30 a.m.

Yuval Noah Harari, the author of Sapiens and Homo Deus, explores the long history of inequality \u2013 from the Stone Age onwards \u2013 and asks whether we are on the brink of creating a huge \u201ceconomically useless\u201d underclass, unable to keep up with enhanced humans, the owners of increasingly valuable data and, eventually, artificial intelligence.

Presenter: Ruth Alexander Producer: Estelle Doyle Editor: Richard Knight

(Photo: Yuval Noah Harari, Credit: Daniel Thomas Smith)