Homo Deus

A Brief History of Tomorrow.

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Published Feb. 20, 2017 by HarperCollins.

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978-0-06-265730-5
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (Hebrew: ההיסטוריה של המחר, English: The History of the Tomorrow) is a book written by Israeli author Yuval Noah Harari, professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The book was first published in Hebrew in 2015 by Dvir publishing; the English-language version was published in September 2016 in the United Kingdom and in February 2017 in the United States. As with its predecessor, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Harari recounts the course of history while describing events and the individual human experience, along with ethical issues in relation to his historical survey. However, Homo Deus (from Latin "Homo" meaning man or human and "Deus" meaning God) deals more with the abilities acquired by humans (Homo sapiens) throughout their existence, and their evolution as the dominant species in the world. The book describes mankind's current abilities and achievements and attempts to paint an …

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Where "Sapiens" explores trends and tendensies of humanity throughout history. This book tries to go a step further and asks the question where the course of said human history will lead us in the coming decades and centuries. It's an easy read while still trying to be a scientificly based work. Of course the topics in this book are not as in depth as they can or should be as this would probably make it less readable. In all it's a great read for people who like to think about philisophocall themes but generally don't enjoy meaty nonfiction works.

Review of 'Homo Deus' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

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.

Review of 'Homo Deus' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

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.

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