What are today’s greatest challenges and most important choices? How do we maintain freedom of choice when Big Data is watching? What will the future workplace look like? Yuval Harari, author of the subject book, has a unique ability to make sense of where we have come from and where we are going. We will discuss many pressing issues, including problems associated with liberal democracy, nationalism, immigration, religion, and the educational and economic response to automation. The author invites us to consider values, meaning, and personal engagement in a world full of noise and uncertainty by presenting complex contemporary challenges in 21 clear and accessible lessons. Each aims to stimulate further thinking and help us participate in some major conversations of our time.
These sessions for those 50 and above will be led by Instructors Gail Hubbard and Ron Frisch. The Study Group meets on Fridays from 1-3 p.m., from April 19-May 17.