Of Empires and Experiences: What Does Your Data Mean?
Healthcare Innovation October 12, 2023
As archeologists, linguists, and other scholars probe the distant past, we’re learning that the origins of writing were deeply connected to data management
As I wrote in my Editor’s Notes for our September/October issue of Healthcare Innovation, anthropologists and other scientists have spent numerous decades already trying to piece together the history of humankind, to truly understand what the lived experience of our species has been, across hundreds of thousands of years and longer; needless to say, the work remains daunting, for a constellation of reasons.
One author who has taken up the challenge is Yuval Noah Harari, Ph.D., who lectures in the Department of History at the University of Jerusalem. Harari’s book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, was...