Control of Data Allows Elites To Form Something More Radical Than Mere Digital Dictatorships

Yuval Noah Harari, in an address to the World Economic Forum:

"Control of data might enable human elites to do something even more radical than just build digital dictatorships."

"By hacking organisms, elites may gain the power to re-engineer the future of life itself."

"If indeed we succeed in hacking and engineering life, this will be not just the greatest revolution in the history of humanity, this will be the greatest revolution in biology."

"Science is replacing evolution by natural selection with evolution by intelligent design—not the intelligent design of some god above the clouds, but our intelligent design."