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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
4.0 ⭐️s. Startingly prescient. What he gets right is REALLY RIGHT. This was penned almost a decade ago when all we had were musings of what things could be. Now, the future knocks. Close. We live in interesting times, and this is worst thing. At least we will be entertained.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5/5
This is a thought provoking and at times alarming book. The author describes human development from animism amongst hunter gatherers, to theism in agrarian societies, to humanism in the modern world. The book asks, what’s next?
The discussions around consciousness and human freewill are particularly interesting. In particular how the use of MRI technology is questioning whether what we call human choice is mere biological algorithms.
He demonstrates we are moving from an anthropocentric to a data-centric world. An information revolution. The super algorithms may become a powerful new religion superseding humanism. And making humans irrelevant. This could lead to a potentially terrifying world in which life and consciousness is reduced to the improved propagation and transfer of data flows whose ultimate aim is the internet of everything.
This is a thought provoking and at times alarming book. The author describes human development from animism amongst hunter gatherers, to theism in agrarian societies, to humanism in the modern world. The book asks, what’s next?
The discussions around consciousness and human freewill are particularly interesting. In particular how the use of MRI technology is questioning whether what we call human choice is mere biological algorithms.
He demonstrates we are moving from an anthropocentric to a data-centric world. An information revolution. The super algorithms may become a powerful new religion superseding humanism. And making humans irrelevant. This could lead to a potentially terrifying world in which life and consciousness is reduced to the improved propagation and transfer of data flows whose ultimate aim is the internet of everything.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
"Life has no script, no playwright, no director, no producer - and no meaning. To the best of our scientific understanding, the universe is a blind and purposeless process, full of sound and fury but signifying nothing. [...] Since there is no script, and since humans fulfil no role in any great drama, terrible things might befall us and no power will come to save us or give meaning to our suffering. There won't be a happy ending, or a bad ending, or any ending at all. Things just happen, one after the other. The modern world does not believe in purpose, only in cause."
This books follows the popular book 'The Sapiens' from the same author. The Sapiens talks on how the homo Sapiens evolved as human being in detail. This book 'Homo Deus' talks about how human being conquered the entire world and how it made humanism as the new religion. Also it discuss in detail on what will be the future for the sapiens and what are all the challenges sapiens may face, also as Sapien conquered the world who will take over from Sapiens in the future.
One of the must read books of lifetime. This book will change the way how we look creed,humans,industrialism,etc.,
One of the must read books of lifetime. This book will change the way how we look creed,humans,industrialism,etc.,
Kwam niet door het eind heen. Typische Harari stijl. Persoonlijk niet fan van dit soort wat-als toekomstgeschiedenis.
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
4.5/5 - Took forever to finish listening to this audiobook since it was a joint effort with my partner. Sapiens was grounded in history whereas this falls in the philosophy territory. Definitely challenged some of my thinking and also introduced some concepts that I wasn't aware of. Greatly educational once you take the leap that it's a philosophy book not a history book.
i recently received information that......his claims were not Real.......forgive me i was just a child.........i still have yet to reread it. so i don't wanna like. trash my rating because i genuinely don't remember what was in it or how egregious any of his potentially false claims were. but i don't think you should read this. although i don't seem to have had reliable opinions on this book. so. take what i say as you will. someone else has probably reviewed this book and fact checked it alr so. so.