Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Perfect

One of the best books I've ever read.

Terrific and somewhat frightening read, that really gets the thinking juices going. Where are we headed in the information and big data age...

A must read after Sapiens.

Hey there ! Hope your are doing well :) Since you are here, I'm gonna give you a quick recap( which, in no way,is exhaustive but will surely give you a brief idea as to what this text embodies and what lies there for you:) Please read ahead🙂 : The Book titled Homo Deus is a page turner which, in itself, is a rare quality among plethora of books innudating the markets out there . _The text examines the PAST in a meticulous manner ( He talks about Primates , sapiens and early humans dating back as far as 70,000 years! Unsurprisingly, the author is a Historian and talks precisely about DNA , biochemistry ,and not to forget Quantum Physics ) and gives a relative FUTURE (which he calls Apocalyptic and correctly so) we humans are likely to see in accordance to the Activities ( be it economic , political or cultural) and the prognosis( though the authors clarifies this to give the reader a more realistic feel) and the analysis happens to be shocking if not horrifying and equally disturbing. The author goes about describing the ambitious transformation into Super-Human and ultimate Quest for attaining Immortality( he calls it a-mortality) and talks at great lengths about Humanism-The Purported Human Supremacy ! The book carries some really interesting stories from the past spanning the Ancient Egypt( including Pharaoes and Egyptian Gods) to Biblical Israel and Medieval China. Every single argument the Author Makes is supplemented by statistics and mind-boggling truths. The Book makes a compassionate and yet painful circuit by talking about the atrocities meted onto Pigs and other animals :( And also tells some hilarious and far-reaching experiments perfomed on Animals(capuchin Monkeys for instance) ; Which are available on You-tube for us to watch !! The text is not a monologue but elicits thoughts and utterances to some challenging but enganging Questions . All in all , the book is a great text and is a must read for a HUMAN who at times feels sceptic , curious and equally perplexed about the future I and You are constantly heading Towards. Thank you🙂 The book has nice fresh pages with reader-friendly font. The delivery by Amazon was Good and timely☺️

What a tremendous book this is. Subtitled, ‘A Brief History of Tomorrow’, this follow-up to ‘Sapiens’ confirms the author’s mastery of deep research combined with an intelligence that permits him to see the world as a whole. I selected this book to read now as I’m at the initial editing stage of a science fiction novel and the blurb suggested it might help me consider my imagined future in a broader way. It has done that. And how. Harari displays incredible insight in his analysis of the world we inhabit. His knowledge of science, history, religion and much else brings the reader a comprehensive, and alarming, picture of the state of humanity now and the potential future that lays before us. He manages to combine down-to-earth common sense with a deep understanding of the most abstruse theories surrounding so many areas of human activity and thinking. The book is divided into three sections, preceded by a longish, but eminently readable, introduction to the New Human Agenda. Part two looks at Meaning from a human perspective. Part three looks at Control and who holds the power, who might hold it in the future. Not a book to skim read or even cherry pick, this is a volume that requires your concentration throughout. Dealing, as it does, with complex issues and themes that may be new to some readers, it nevertheless describes these in plain language that everyone should understand. I have learned a lot about the world in which I live whilst perusing these pages. The future, a time I constantly consider in my life and in my writing of fiction, is an unknown land. What Harari does here is to give that strange and alien destination potential shape and form. And I admit that what he reveals is not a world I would wish to inhabit. Having said that, his vision is, as he so eloquently explains, not a prophesy. It is, as all such endeavours must be, a series of speculations based on current knowledge interpolated and made subject to imagination to reach a possible conclusion. This is a book that’s important. This is a book that’s vital. This is a book all people should read. A warning about what may happen to humanity if we fail to act to prevent the possible future. Our children deserve our attention to what might be. If we fail them in this, we may fail the future of humanity.