Homo Deus
by Yuval Noah Harari
Harari's sequel looks forward: having reduced famine, plague and war, humanity may pursue immortality, happiness and divinity through biotech and AI, and the humanist faith in individual experience may give way to dataism. It is speculative, unsettling and more argument than history.
Read it if…
you want a provocative frame for the coming decades.
Skip it if…
you want grounded forecasting; this is philosophy of the future.
Three things you will actually use
- New agendas replace old scourges.
- Algorithms may know you better than you know yourself.
- Humanism is a story too; it can change.
Do this first
Ask which of your decisions you already outsource to algorithms, and whether you chose to.
Our verdict
Speculative and unsettling.
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