Key Insights From:
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
By Yuval Noah Harari
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14 Minute Read
Published: Feb 21, 2017
Key Insights From:
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
By Yuval Noah Harari
Audio Available |
14 Minute Read
Published: Feb 21, 2017
What You'll Learn:
Historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari offers a vision of humanity’s future that is radically different from its past by just about every conceivable metric. He argues that biology and information technologies are growing and blending so quickly that we are likely to see the emergence of a new caste of upgraded humans, and that the enhancements could be significant enough to warrant labeling them a new species: Homo deus. Harari maps out the pathways that have led us to this point, and shows how Homo deus will emerge if present trends continue.
Key Insights:
- Humanity is hungry for a new goal to chase now that it has decisively reduced the risks of famine, plague, and war.
- Immortality is the new frontier that humanity is chasing instead of equality.
- Humanity will be less comfortable basing its worth on its power when more powerful life forms supplant it.
- Humanism changed the source of ultimate authority from the heavens to the human heart, but the appeal to feelings could be humanism’s downfall.
- The two religions that will replace the religion of humanism will either be “techno-humanism” or “Dataism.”
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