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In the episode, Fareed Zakaria highlighted the book for its intelligent discussion of the rise of a meritocratic elite and its prescient insight that knowledge would become the primary basis of elite status. He noted that the author, a Harvard scholar, had accurately forecasted this shift. The commentary presented the title as a noteworthy analysis for listeners interested in social forecasting.
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The book was highlighted for intelligently discussing the rise of the meritocratic elite and presciently identifying that knowledge would become the most important determinant of elite status.
The person who wrote about it most intelligently is the great Harvard scholar Daniel Bell who wrote a book called The Coming of the Post-Industrial Society. And he identified presciently that the future was going to belong to people who had knowledge and that knowledge was going to become the most important determinant of whether or not you were elite or not.