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Homo Deus Low Price CD: A Brief History of Tomorrow Audio CD – Unabridged, 10 September 2019
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.
Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style--thorough, yet riveting--famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda.
What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century--from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus.
With the same insight and clarity that made Sapiens an international hit and a New York Times bestseller, Harari maps out our future.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarperAudio
- Publication date10 September 2019
- Dimensions13.46 x 3.56 x 14.99 cm
- ISBN-100062955632
- ISBN-13978-0062955630
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In Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari examines humanity's future, offering a vision of tomorrow that at first seems incomprehensible but soon looks undeniable: humanity will soon lose not only its dominance, but its very meaning.
Over the past century, humankind has managed to turn the uncontrollable forces of nature--namely, famine, plague, and war--into manageable challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams, and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century, from overcoming death to creating artificial life. But the pursuit of these very goals may ultimately render most human beings superfluous. We cannot stop the march of history, but we can influence its direction.
Future-casting typically assumes that tomorrow will look much like today: we will possess amazing new technologies, but old humanist values like liberty and equality will still guide us. Homo Deus dismantles these assumptions and opens our eyes to a vast range of alternative possibilities, with provocative arguments:
- The main products of the twenty-first-century economy will be bodies, brains, and minds.
- The way humans have treated animals is a good indicator for how upgraded humans will treat us.
- Democracy and the free market will both collapse and authority will shift from individual humans to networked algorithms.
- Humans won't fight machines; they will merge with them. We are heading toward marriage rather than war.
This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus.
About the Author
Prof. Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and the bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and Sapiens: A Graphic History. His books have sold over 35 million copies in 65 languages, and he is considered one of the world's most influential public intellectuals today. The Guardian has credited Sapiens with revolutionizing the non-fiction market and popularizing "brainy books".
In 2020 Harari joined forces with renowned comics artists David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave, to create Sapiens: A Graphic History: a radical adaptation of the original Sapiens into a graphic novel series. This illustrated collection casts Yuval Noah Harari in the role of guide, who takes the reader through the entire history of the human species, accompanied by a range of fictional characters and traveling through time, space and popular culture references.
Born in Haifa, Israel, in 1976, Harari received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2002, and is currently a lecturer at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He originally specialized in world history, medieval history and military history, and his current research focuses on macro-historical questions such as: What is the relationship between history and biology? What is the essential difference between Homo sapiens and other animals? Is there justice in history? Does history have a direction? Did people become happier as history unfolded? What ethical questions do science and technology raise in the 21st century?
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- Publisher : HarperAudio; Unabridged edition (10 September 2019)
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 0062955632
- ISBN-13 : 978-0062955630
- Dimensions : 13.46 x 3.56 x 14.99 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 553,827 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 335 in Futurology
- 2,036 in History of Civilization & Culture
- 128,626 in Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences
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Prof. Yuval Noah Harari has a PhD in History from the University of Oxford and lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in world history. His books have been translated into 65 languages, with 40 million copies sold worldwide. 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind' (2014) looked deep into our past, 'Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow' (2016) considered far-future scenarios, and '21 Lessons for the 21st Century' (2018) zoomed in on the biggest questions of the present moment. 'Sapiens: A Graphic History' (launched in 2020) is a radical adaptation of 'Sapiens' into a graphic novel series, which Harari created and co-wrote in collaboration with comics artists David Vandermeulen (co-writer) and Daniel Casanave (illustrator).
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I expected this book to be similar to “Sapiens: Brief History of Humankind” which was a fantastic book but I was wrong, this book is a mess. It says on the title “Brief History of Tomorrow” but all it talks is about the present and not enough about the future.
This book mainly focuses on knowing what is happening right now, what is going to happen and how to live in the future world. I am not joking but over 60% of information was unnecessary for me which made me ask myself “should I stop reading this book?” I noticed that this book is too informative and not enough opinion from the author.
“Sapiens” talked about widely through human emotions to technological evolution but in Homo Deus, most of the chapters are about technology and I was tired of that.
I totally prefer buying “Sapiens” rather than this awful book and if you are willing to buy the book I recommend in the book rather than ebook and audible.
I am not saying that this book is the worst for everyone, it just didn’t fit in my type of book that I like and I would prefer this book to a person who wants to learn about the present technology behind the life we live in. I also recommend this book for a young reader who needs to realise how future life is going to be tough and uneasy.
Although it has many problems with this book, there are some important message and lesson within.
He anticipates that the so called Godly human will have no requirement for knowledge, He says knowledge and data is often mistakenly secured and created through so called misinformation which he says the brain creates to analyse experience ,
. Because of this and the profound knowledge of the life sciences we now espouse the he says introduction of computers and artificial intelligence, m will take away our animality and feelings which he looks upon with a certain degree of disrespect and lack of understanding.
He almost denigrates our past history as being something which has failed in certain ways, and therefore we have to look towards a new consensus going beyond liberalism, to a so called utopia of Homo Deus but basically not understanding that we're really entering a dystopia .He has no conception of the Orwellian world.
I think he's cozying up to such people as Ray Kurzweil and Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg, He is trying to inform the public that we're going into a wonderful new world, which may in fact dehumanize people to the extent they will become purely and simply homos cyborgs.
It's a very depressing book, which is enlivened by his intelligence, but lacking the basic understanding of what the feeling and spiritual nature of humanity is.
This is because he does not understand the nature of consciousness, and the huge advances in this research .In fact, he has no understanding of the new science of life based on consciousness, and he is really backward in his conceptualization.
Really enjoyed this book, but the second half is the most gripping. It offers a number of paths humanity can take into the future and to be honest all are fairly bleak.
The only point to raise with this book is that whilst Sapiens is reasonably timeless as it covers humanity from inception to modern day, Homo Deus will date fairly quickly, so I recommend reading it soon!
I rated this book slightly less because I feel the author underestimates and undervalues humanism. There's no mention in the book for example about enlightened self-interest the philosophy in ethics which I experience as being a very powerful force for good in the world.
I'm also a dataism skeptic and don't accept all the hype about freedom of information when insight is the key not information.
Despite my misgivings above I still think this book is a highly valuable read and makes a great contribution to what our future will be like. And I will be getting the authors next book as soon as I press submit.
Beautifully constructed with recurrent themes throughout that not only help you understand his points but also make you go ‘Wow - I never thought of it like that before.’
His insights into what brought mankind to this point are very insightful.
His predictions into where we're headed I found less convincing - but who knows. Time will tell.
Certainly gave me plenty to think about.
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The best thing about it is the way Harari effortlessly threads different fields of anthropology, biology, neuroscience, behavioural economics, economics, psychology, history and philosophy.
I would say that some of the terminology could be easier to grasp; his breakdown of the liberalism world view and dataism could go over the heads of the layman.
Harai is a visionary; and this book sets out a well-backed up case for a warning for humanity as we approach an age dominated by genetic modification, AI and super-humans.


Discussion of where we might go tomorrow is too short and badly thought through; very badly thought through in fact.
Almost like it was constructed from existing material with a new ending added on. I haven't read Sapiens yet, but I'm suspicious that might the existing material bit...

It certainly helps me come to terms with my thoughts and beliefs about religion and humanity. It turns out I am a liberal humanist, now who would have thought!
It answers questions for me, such as “why are we here” (Why does there have to be a “why”?) and “where are we going?”
If I had stopped and put my thoughts down on paper, used common sense and considered the technical and medical world as it is, I would probably have come to the same conclusion contained in the book. It’s all a bit obvious, but we don’t think of it, and so we don’t know how to answer those questions. Do we really believe medical advances are going to slow down or stop? Do we really believe that technology advances are going to slow down or stop? The answer to both is “no”.
So, if that’s the case, it’s obvious that we will inevitably achieve immortality once aging and disease have been removed.
So then what? Imagine increasing our lives by just a quarter. When do we stop work? How do we support ourselves? What meaning will we have in our long long lives? Where’s the food coming from?
I love this book and I’m going to have to read it again, because it’s difficult to take it all in the first time through.