Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
What happens when humanity, having conquered war, famine, and plague, turns its gaze not toward survival—but toward godhood? Homo Deus is a hauntingly lucid exploration of our next great ambition: to engineer happiness, eternal life, and perhaps even divinity itself. As algorithms begin to understand us better than we understand ourselves, the book poses an unsettling question: will Homo sapiens remain masters of their destiny, or become relics of their own creation? With the cold fire of prophecy and the precision of science, this narrative beckons the reader to walk the fault line between intelligence and consciousness, freedom and programming, mortal limits and divine dreams.
- Originally Published: 2017
- Publisher: Vintage, 2015
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Pages: 526
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-1784703936
- Access: Members
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‘An intoxicating brew of science, philosophy and futurism’ ~ Mail on Sunday
Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we’re going.
‘Spellbinding’ Guardian
The world-renowned historian and intellectual Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond – from overcoming death to creating artificial life.
It asks the fundamental questions: how can we protect this fragile world from our own destructive power? And what does our future hold?
‘Even more readable, even more important, than his excellent Sapiens‘ Kazuo Ishiguro
‘Homo Deus will shock you. It will entertain you. It will make you think in ways you had not thought before’ Daniel Kahneman, bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow
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