Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
by Yuval Noah Harari
View on GoodreadsObesity now kills more people than starvation, old age more than disease, and suicide more than murder. With famine, plague and war largely tamed, Harari argues, humanity turns next to defeating death, lasting happiness and god-like powers, and algorithms may come to know you better than you know yourself.
Core ideas
- Flawed gods: The potential result looks like the gods of Greek or Hindu myth, immortal and superpowered but still flawed.
- Humanism under strain: Humanism, in liberal, socialist and evolutionary strands, is today's leading religion, and the book challenges the idea of free will underneath it.
- Dataism: The final part sketches a creed that treats reality as information flows and organisms as algorithms, with ordinary humans at risk of economic obsolescence.
Published2015
Pages450
ISBN9780062464316
ReadJul 2022
