A review by teelock
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

5.0

Time magazine listed Homo Deus as one of its top ten non-fiction books of 2017.
Wellcome longlisted Homo Deus for their 2017 Book Prize.

Homo Deus was reviewed in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Economist, The New Yorker, NPR, Financial Times, and Times Higher Education published articles and reviews about the book. The review aggregator website Book Marks reported that 43% of critics gave the book a "rave" review, whilst the rest of the critics expressed either "positive" (29%) or "mixed" (29%) impressions, based on a sample of seven reviews.

Writing in The Guardian, David Runciman praised the book's originality and style, although suggested it lacked empathy for Homo sapiens. The review points out that "Harari cares about the fate of animals in a human world but he writes about the prospects for Homo sapiens in a data-driven world with a lofty insouciance." Runciman nonetheless gave the book a generally positive review.

Writing in the Journal of Evolution and Technology, Allan McCay has challenged Harari's claims about the human algorithmic agency.

Steve Aoki's song Homo Deus is named after the book and includes Harari's narration of the book.