Big data is reshaping humanity, says Yuval Noah Harari

Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks. YUVAL NOAH HARARI may be the first global public intellectual to be native to the 21st century. Where other authors are carpetbaggers, hauling their 20th-century thinking into the new millennium, Mr Harari is its local boy done good. He comes with all the accoutrements of the modern pop thinker: a posh education (Oxford, followed by a teaching gig at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem), two bestsellers and the obligatory TED talk. And he is armed with a big idea: that human beings will change more in the next hundred years than they have in all of their previous existence.