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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari · 2017 · 449 pages
Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more 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.
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Andrej Karpathy
“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.”
Bill Gates
“A thoughtful look at what may be in store for humanity.”↗
Naval Ravikant
“Homo Deus, successor to Sapiens? Good, but nowhere near as good as Sapiens. Sapiens I think is the best book of the last decade that I have read. I loved Sapiens and I highly recommend it for everybody here. Homo Deus is a sequel and I think you all know that Harari is a genius, but the issue he had was, he had decades to write Sapiens. Then his editors probably said, “Wow! That made a lot of money, so can you please crank out a second book right away?” So they come up with one in a year or two and call it Homo Deus. Homo Deus is very insightful and very clever and very smart, but it’s basically got one big idea at the center. When you figure out that one idea, you don’t need to finish the whole book. Whereas with Sapiens, there’s lots and lots of great ideas in there and it’s just full of them, chock full per page.”↗
Mark Russinovich
“Non-work books I've read that I recommend”↗
Trevor Sumner
““Happiness is driven more by expectations than conditions.” Good reminder from a great book Homo Deus.”↗
Ranveer Allahbadia
“"Yuval Noah Harari's books, podcast and mind in general have been the discovery of the year for me. His work is a gift to man kind. Urge every single knowledge seeker to read, re-read and retain his 3 books - Sapiens - Homo Deus - 21 Lessons For The 21st Century."”↗
Michelle Rodriguez
“After reading the wonderful book ‘Homodeus’, I’ve come to one conclusion... Mankind & Humanity don’t mix. Blame it on ‘The Tyranny of The Unquantifiable’😏 there’s irony in there somewhere I’m sure...”↗
Alicia Vikander
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