Main products of the #21st century - bodies, #brains and minds

 

"The main products of the twenty-first century will be bodies, brains and minds, and the gap between those who know how to engineer bodies and brains and those who do not will be far bigger than the gap between Dickens’s Britain and the Mahdi’s Sudan. 

Indeed, it will be bigger than the gap between Sapiens and Neanderthals." (from "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" by Yuval Noah Harari)

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4min 39sec @TedEd clip - How can you #change someone's mind? (hint: facts aren't always enough) - Hugo Mercier

Text from youtube "Why do arguments change people’s minds in some cases and backfire in others? Hugo Mercier explains how arguments are more convincing when they rest on a good knowledge of the audience, taking into account what the audience believes, who they trust, and what they value. Lesson by Hugo Mercier, animation by TED-Ed."