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A review by brentleytw
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
2.0
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.