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 …
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.
This book was marketed badly. On the surface you would expect it to talk about humanities future, and only about it. (If you are only interested in that, just read this book's prologue). If you are intrested in what this book is actually about, it is split into three parts:
The first part is just a summary of Sapiens, The second part discusses the power of sapiens to coordinate using religeon (and ideologies), and the final part is just the author ranting about how AI and data will replace humanity.
Насколько была хороша первая книга настолько эта же слаба. Где-то к середине приходится просто продираться сквозь сто раз пережеванную одну и ту же мысль. Типа «бога нет, а животные точно такие же как мы». По началу я даже пытался выписывать логически ляпы и несостыковки но с какого-то момента это стало просто утомительным.
После небольшого, и да, достаточно интересного вступления, следует какая-то исповедь вегана-атеиста-гея (все три течения это действительно про автора). И хотя я не имею ничего против каждого из этих течений по отдельности тут они стали просто какой-то самоцелью. Книга просто превращается в трибуну для именно этих ценностей вместо анализа возможного будущего человечества о чём нам обещает заглавие.
P.S. Это первая книга в этому году которую я бросил просто не дочитав.
