nicholas thompson, the ceo of the atlantic. thompson is worked as the editor in chief of and as the editor of newyorker.com. join me in welcoming yuval harari and nicholas thompson. hello, yuval how are you? i'm fine, thank you. it's a real pleasure to be here with yuval. he is not only a great historian, as you all know, he is a very kind in the green room. among his many duties, signing books, answering my about israeli politics. he also helped read a bedtime to my ten year old, who is a huge of unstoppable. so thank you, yuval? it's my pleasure pleasure. all right. so what i want to do in this book. is i want to go through some of the history, some of the stories you tell. i'm going to ask you a few questions about characters you introduce, the ideas they represent. we'll go through some of the arguments you make about history, about ai and about democracy. and then i hope there'll be some time at the end to go through some your apocalyptic thought experiments. does that work? yeah absolutely. and i have a whole series of qu