Yuval Noah Harari
Professor Department Of History
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Interviewer: Now, Yuval, you wrote a piece in the Financial Times where you talked about smartphones and governments using that technology and a greater threat of surveillance systems.
Can you talk to me about this? And do you think ultimately this is a good or a bad thing for civilization?
Yuval of the WEF World Economic Forum: It could be good, but we need to be very careful about it. What’s happening now, it’s really a watershed in the history of surveillance.
First of all, we see mass surveillance systems entering and being adopted in democratic countries, which previously resisted them.
Secondly, we see the nature of surveillance systems changing from over-the-skin surveillance to under-the-skin surveillance.
Comment: This is the type of New World Order the (WEF) World Economic Forum want. Total control over your life.
Over-the-skin surveillance is, say, the government or a corporation watching, monitoring where you go, what you buy, what you watch on television.
Under-the-skin surveillance starts with monitoring your body temperature and blood pressure, but ultimately it’s about hacking your body and brain and knowing what you’re feeling each and every moment, not just pain or coughing, but our emotions are a biological phenomena exactly like the flu or like heat, like temperature.
So if you have a surveillance system that can tell you if somebody is sick, that same surveillance system can also tell you how they feel each and every moment.
