Homo Deus

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style thorough, yet riveting famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges For the first time ever, people die from eating too much than from eating too little people die from old age than from infectious diseases and people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together The average American is a thousand times likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda.What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda As the self made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty first century from overcoming death to creating artificial life It asks the fundamental questions Where do we go from here And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers This is the next stage of evolution This is Homo Deus.With the same insight and clarity that made Sapiens an international hit and a New York Times bestseller, Harari maps out our future New Read Homo Deus author Yuval Noah Harari For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This is a profoundly shocking piece of writing, a tactic which Yuval Noah Harari uses to great effect in getting readers to think about society today The book is ostensibly about the future of mankind, but really is a means of highlighting how current trends in science, technology, humanity etc may progress and asks if that s really how we want things to go It s philosophy That big question that has been posed throughout the ages how should we live He makes clear that his hypotheses are onl This is a profoundly shocking piece of writing, a tactic which Yuval Noah Harari uses to great effect in getting readers to think about society today The book is ostensibly about the future of mankind, but really is a means of highlighting how current trends in science, technology, humanity etc may progress and asks if that s really how we want things to go It s philosophy That big question that has been posed throughout the ages how should we live He makes clear that his hypotheses are only potential ways the future might unfold, but the text comes across as a warning as much as anything else.For me, the most interesting and thought provoking was his argument for the better treatment of animals While we have placed ourselves at the top of the species ladder, new advents in technology may bring about computer te...Every day millions of people decide to grant their smartphone a bitcontrol over their lives or try a new andeffective antidepressant drug In pursuit of health, happiness and power, humans will gradually change first one of their features and then another, and another, until they will no longer be humanYuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus A Brief History of TomorrowHarari takes us, with this continuation to his blockbuster book Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind, from the past to tEvery day millions of people decide to grant their smartphone a bitcontrol over their lives or try a new andeffective antidepressant drug In pursuit of health, happiness and power, humans will gradually change first one of their features and then another,...Homo ObsoletusThe audacious first act, Sapiens, ended with a wild and apocalyptic prophesy that the Sapiens were cooking up the next epochal revolution that will overshadow the previous three the cognitive, agricultural and scientific industrial revolutions Home Deus, the second act, is the full exploration of that prophesy Both Sapiens and Homo Deus are compulsory reading in my book, even though the macro history presented is plenty vulnerable to all sorts of attacks But then, it might be Homo ObsoletusThe audacious first act, Sapiens, ended with a wild and apocalyptic prophesy that the Sapiens were cooking up the next epochal revolution that will overshadow the previous three the cognitive, agricultural and scientific industrial revolutions Home Deus, the second act, is the full exploration of that prophesy Both Sapiens and Homo Deus are compulsory reading...This is a powerful book by a truly insightful author I recently read Harari s previous great book, Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind, and I enjoyed this one just as much There is so much packed into Homo Deus A Brief History of Tomorrow, that it is hard to do justice to the book in a review Yuval Harari has such a unique insight into how the world turns He is sometimes very blunt, but he tells it like he sees it The first two thirds of the book is devoted to a description of how the This is a powerful book by a truly insightful author I recently read Harari s previous great book, Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind, and I enjoyed this one just as much There is so much packed into Homo Deus A Brief History of Tomorrow, that it is hard to do justice to the book in a review Yuval Harari has such a unique insight into how the world turns He is sometimes very blunt, but he tells it like he sees it The first two thirds of the book is devoted to a description of how the humanist philosophy developed, while the last third is about how humanism may very well fa...Obviously I need to get a copy of Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind because I loved this book I can t claim to be well read in the topic of Homo Deus A Brief History of Tomorrow, so I m definitely biased in my opinion that Harari is a genius Every few pages my copy has lengthy passages highlighted, brilliant bits I just knew I would want to reference when I pitched this book to family and friends later on In Homo Deus, Harari holds that now that humanity has all but solved the mammoth pr Obviously I need to get a copy of Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind because I loved this book I can t claim to be well read in the topic of Homo Deus A Brief History of Tomorrow, so I m definitely biased in my opinion that Harari is a genius Every few pages my copy has lengthy passages highlighted, brilliant bit...Tongue Firmly in CheekOrThe Mormons Are RightOrEvolution Is So YesterdayOrThe Problems of Prayers AnsweredOrToo Much Good News Is Hard to TakeOrIt Could have Turned Out So Different But It Didn t OrAll Thoughts and Feelings Are Algorithms Except This OneOrFiction Is Our Fundamental Technology Just Ask Donald TrumpOr The Vital Uncertainty We Can Have Meaning Or Power in Life But Not Both TogetherAs with his previous book Sapiens, Harari tells a story in Homo Deus that is too disconcerting to Tongue Firmly in CheekOrThe Mormons Are RightOrEvolution Is So YesterdayOrThe Problems of Prayers AnsweredOrToo Much Good News Is Hard to TakeOrIt Could hav...This book reads like the author read a number of popular science articles, watched some sci fi movies, attended a transhumanist meetup, got just a bit high on weed and then started writing.Que livro amigos, que livro N o lembro do que li que me fez pensar tanto e mudar a forma como vejo o mundo Uma tima an lise r pida sobre como chegamos aqui, que se conecta muito bem com o Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind, e uma an lise mais extensa sobre para onde podemos ir A an lise em terceira pessoa sobre humanismo, capitalismo e tend ncias futuras excelente E a reflex o que ele traz sobre os valores que damos para o valor individual, consci ncia e autonomia s deve ganhar import Que livro amigos, que livro N o lembro do que li que me fez pensar tanto e mudar a forma como vejo o mundo Uma tima an lise r pida sobre como chegamos aqui, que se conecta muito bem com o Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind, e uma an lise mais extensa sobre para onde podemos ir A an lise em terceira pessoa sobre humanismo, capitalismo e tend ncias futuras excelente E a reflex ...Harari is a fantastic historian he writes effortlessly and fascinatingly about historic trends, and has a great big picture perspective of the revolutions and contexts of historical progression.Harari, however, is not a good futurologist and an absolutely terrible cognitive scientist Being educated in Cognitive Science and technology myself, all I can say, with the utmost respect I can offer to a fellow Israeli, is that he s full of shit.Homo Deus is an attempt to make a sequel to the wildly p Harari is a fantastic historian he writes effortlessly and fascinatingly about historic trends, and has a great big picture perspective of the revolutions and contexts of historical progression.Harari, however, is not a good futurologist and an absolutely terrible cognitive scientist Being educated in Cognitive Science and technology myself, all I can say, with the utmost respect I can offer to a fellow Israeli, is that he s full of shit.Homo Deus is an attempt to make a sequel to the wildly popular and actually quite good From Animals into Gods its main thesis is that in the 21st century, liberal humanism would progress into techno humanism and that humanity s main efforts would be to upgrade humans into some bizarre godlike cyborg entity He focuses on some aspects of modern progress e.g genetic engineering and extrapolates completely insane uses An example of a claim that he makes In the near future, the efforts of medical science would be tuned to upgrading ...We are not so taken aback when we hear computer programs can beat human chess masters After all, computers are farefficient calculators than humans, and chess can be broken down to calculations In fact, nowadays chess masters don t stand a chance against present day computer Chessmaster programs It s simply not possible for a human mind to beat them And we re also not at all shocked when Google and Tesla present us automated cars driven by computer programs Nevertheless, we reason,co We are not so taken aback when we hear computer programs can beat human chess masters After all, computers are farefficient calculators than humans, and chess can be broken down to calculations In fact, nowadays chess masters don t stand a chance against present day computer Chessmaster programs It s simply not possible for a human mind to beat them And we re also not at all shocked when Google and Tesla present us automated cars driven by computer programs Nevertheless, we reason,computers can never rival humans in arts, because arts require something distinctively perhaps even spiritually humane, which can never be replicate...

• English
• 09 November 2018
Yuval Noah Harari
• Kindle Edition
• 450 pages
• Yuval Noah Harari
• Homo Deus