Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
by Yuval Noah Harari
View on GoodreadsPicking up where Sapiens ended, Harari argues that humanity's next project — having largely solved famine, plague, and war — is to seek immortality, happiness, and god-like powers, and that humanism itself will give way to "dataism."
Core ideas
- The humanist religion (individual experience as the source of meaning) is being undermined by sciences that show no unified self exists.
- Biotech and AI will split humans into upgraded and obsolete classes, ending liberal democracy's "every voter counts" premise.
- Dataism: the belief that the universe is data flows and that organisms — including humans — are biochemical algorithms to be optimized or surpassed.
Published2015
Pages450
ISBN9780062464316
ReadJul 2022
