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kunalsen 's review for:
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
by Yuval Noah Harari
I had just finished his earlier book, Sapiens, and loved it. When I started reading this one I thought he is mostly repeating the earlier text, which is not so uncommon after a big hit, when the publishers try to convince the author to churn out another book while the iron is still hot, without much new to say. I was completely wrong. This book is full of equally intriguing and compelling ideas, if not more. Most books on the future of humankind dwells on technological extrapolations and then either rejoice the possibility of a fantastic future, or scare us with a dystopian image. This book stays mostly away from specific technological possibilities, but instead analyzes the current state of science and technology philosophically, and imagine where it might lead to. As in his earlier book, no cherished idea is sacrosanct, and he has the courage and intellectual curiosity to look at everything with the same dispassionate eyes of logic, be it capitalism, fascism, communism, or liberal humanism. It is a very refreshing book that forces us to look at familiar things with new and questioning eyes.