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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
reflective
slow-paced
What is more valuable: intelligence, or consciousness?
You'll get wildly different answers based on the context people are thinking of it in. It's an interesting thought to ponder. (Float it around in my thought cage... Can you tell what concurrent book I am reading?). I have multiple family members who could certainly benefit from reading this book but who could absolutely never read it because it would appall them. God, dead? Blasphemy! That's as far as we're getting there...
"We aren't born with a ready-made conscience. As we pass through life we hurt people and people hurt us, we act compassionately and others show compassion to us. If we pay attention, our moral sensitivity sharpens, and these experiences become a source of valuable ethical knowledge about what is good, what is right and who I really am." -240
You'll get wildly different answers based on the context people are thinking of it in. It's an interesting thought to ponder. (Float it around in my thought cage... Can you tell what concurrent book I am reading?). I have multiple family members who could certainly benefit from reading this book but who could absolutely never read it because it would appall them. God, dead? Blasphemy! That's as far as we're getting there...
"We aren't born with a ready-made conscience. As we pass through life we hurt people and people hurt us, we act compassionately and others show compassion to us. If we pay attention, our moral sensitivity sharpens, and these experiences become a source of valuable ethical knowledge about what is good, what is right and who I really am." -240
At first it feels like a bunch of predictions for the future, which is disappointing from Harari. But then you give him a chance because he's never let you down before and he gives you exciting new tools with which to understand the past and present. It comes to a head in the last chapter, when you start to wonder, "This makes so much sense! Why didn't I see it this way before?"
I had high hopes for this book and was solidly let down. This is my first time reading Harari, and I cannot dispute that he's a phenomenal nonfiction writer. Unfortunately, I found that this book did not live up to its premise. Only about 60% of the way through do we really start to dive into the "tomorrow" portion of this book's subtitle "A History of Tomorrow." And only in the last 10% does he actually make predictions or explore where the future is heading in depth. I found many of the smaller concepts Harari presented fascinating and thought-provoking. The most fascinating to me was his argument on economic growth as a religion. I felt he spent so much time setting up for the "tomorrow" section that by the time we got there his conclusions and arguments felt hasty and half-baked. He jumps to wild conclusions with little to no nuance. Harari's tone takes a superior stance over the reader. He speaks as though he is not a homo sapien, but because he has destroyed all of the misconceptions homo sapiens have about ourselves and our society in this book that he is above reproach. At around the 80% mark I felt this tone came to head, and it almost made me DNF it so late in the game. In the last few pages he backtracks on his original premise and tells the reader that he hopes this book has opened our mind to new possibilities and creativity for the human race by breaking down every misconception we have about ourselves. He also explicitly states this book was not meant to provide forecasts on the future, just to open our minds to its possibilities.
Overall, I'm not unhappy to have read it. And truthfully I'll probably give Sapiens a shot. But I could never recommend this book to someone when all the concepts I felt were interesting and resonated with me could have been summed up in a review shorter than this one.
Overall, I'm not unhappy to have read it. And truthfully I'll probably give Sapiens a shot. But I could never recommend this book to someone when all the concepts I felt were interesting and resonated with me could have been summed up in a review shorter than this one.
While I found some of the ideas in Homo Deus intriguing, the book felt overly repetitive and speculative without offering enough concrete insight. I struggled to stay engaged with the dense pacing and ultimately set it aside.
I’ve just finished ‘Homo Deus’ by Yuval Noah Harari and I give it four stars. It is the sequel to ‘Sapiens’ and is subtitled ‘a brief history of tomorrow’.
This is not a book that can be considered a history of the future but more a prediction based on the behaviours of today.
Humans integrating with technology in a cyborg like nature, as our phones are already an extension of us, with the rich upgrading their organs with such procedures out of reach of the poor as the wealth distribution gap grows.
We will also accept the merger of organic and machinist algorithmic behaviours, living the optimal and predictable life that can be bought through algorithms and computer processing speeds - ‘Google’ will predict which of the two dates we should choose to go on for maximum compatibility, it’ll replace Doctors and solve our ailments in seconds or predict the beginning of the next pandemic.
Overall, interesting but perhaps not the future that I will live to see.
This is not a book that can be considered a history of the future but more a prediction based on the behaviours of today.
Humans integrating with technology in a cyborg like nature, as our phones are already an extension of us, with the rich upgrading their organs with such procedures out of reach of the poor as the wealth distribution gap grows.
We will also accept the merger of organic and machinist algorithmic behaviours, living the optimal and predictable life that can be bought through algorithms and computer processing speeds - ‘Google’ will predict which of the two dates we should choose to go on for maximum compatibility, it’ll replace Doctors and solve our ailments in seconds or predict the beginning of the next pandemic.
Overall, interesting but perhaps not the future that I will live to see.
I've seldom read something so fast, this book is so engaging, the way the author builds his point of view and arguments supporting brings me satisfaction and makes me feel smarter, more oriented. I have a better sense of direction regarding the future after having read this book.
This was really good. Thoughtful insights and information about where humans are and are heading, on a big picture, from an evolutionary perspective.