Yuval Noah Harari: 'We are acquiring powers thought to be divine'

But most people seem far more interested in what you can tell them about the future. The agricultural and industrial revolutions were about changing the world outside us. This century will be about changing the world inside us – making new entities with new kinds of brains. We are quickly acquiring powers that were always thought to be divine. I grew up in a small industrial suburb of Haifa, in Israel.