Historian Yuval Noah Harari has taken the world on a tour through the span of humanity, from apes to rulers of the world. Harari became an international sensation when he argued in his best-selling book Sapiens that humans conquered the world through our ability to believe in collective myths about gods, money and freedom. In this excerpt, Harari discusses the authoritative role of big data and algorithms. Series: "SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind" [Humanities] [Show ID: 34534]