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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
informative
Homo Deus does not deliver what it promises. Most of the book is focused on the same concepts that Harari's earlier book, Sapiens, focused on: the history of humankind. Not the future of humankind, as the title would suggest. Paradoxically, Harari is on solid ground only when he writes about history, which is his field of expertise. Because of its ambitious scope and less-than-perfect implementation of said ambitions, Homo Deus contains huge oversimplifications concerning a number of topics, ideas and even whole fields, such as modern experimental psychology, free-market capitalism, and humanism, just to name a few. One such example would be Harari denouncing the existence of free will on the basis of Libet et al.'s experiments, in which researchers were able to predict subjects' decisions to press a button even before the subjects had consciously made a decision to do so. However, to say the free will does not exist is a conclusion that is not only rash but a logical fallacy, too, and this kind of reductive reasoning characterizes Harari's arguments throughout the entire book.
Harari is an adequate writer and the book remains enjoyable even though the contents are quite disappointing. I really loved Sapiens, which is why I wanted to give this one a try. It's too bad that Homo Deus reads more like a freshman philosopher's dragged-out essay than a complete book full of original ideas. Homo Deus has the ingredients to be truly groundbreaking, but, unfortunately, Harari never utilizes the immense amount of knowledge he obviously has at his disposal.
Harari is an adequate writer and the book remains enjoyable even though the contents are quite disappointing. I really loved Sapiens, which is why I wanted to give this one a try. It's too bad that Homo Deus reads more like a freshman philosopher's dragged-out essay than a complete book full of original ideas. Homo Deus has the ingredients to be truly groundbreaking, but, unfortunately, Harari never utilizes the immense amount of knowledge he obviously has at his disposal.
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The weakest of his work.
I read this book over a year ago and I must read it again. It caught my deep interest in AI and Biotechnology and got me thinking about possible future scenarios.
Бих определил тази книга като едно голямо повторение на "Homo Sapiens: Кратка история на човечеството". Много от идеите тук вече ги бях чувал от думите на самия автор преди, а аргументите му понякога бяха просто добре познати вече примери.
I read Sapiens and Homo Deus back to back, and this book just restates all of the exact same points. Sapiens was interesting, but it’s honestly a crock that Harari got away with selling this same book twice.
I expected more future-looking assertions from this book. This was written pre-Covid and pre war in Ukraine, and hindsight is 20/20, but half of Harari’s future predictions are predicated on the idea that humanity has moved past plague and large scale war. Given modern developments of pandemic and large scale European land wars, his points come off as arrogant and are proven humans are growing more and more technologically advanced but far from gods as we still grapple with wide spread pestilence and war despite all modern tech, wisdom, and knowledge.
Again, Sapiens was good but I couldn’t help but roll my eyes through the parts of this book that weren’t outright repeated from his last.
I expected more future-looking assertions from this book. This was written pre-Covid and pre war in Ukraine, and hindsight is 20/20, but half of Harari’s future predictions are predicated on the idea that humanity has moved past plague and large scale war. Given modern developments of pandemic and large scale European land wars, his points come off as arrogant and are proven humans are growing more and more technologically advanced but far from gods as we still grapple with wide spread pestilence and war despite all modern tech, wisdom, and knowledge.
Again, Sapiens was good but I couldn’t help but roll my eyes through the parts of this book that weren’t outright repeated from his last.