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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari

Start date: June 1, 2018

Finish date: June 30, 2018

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May 05, 2018 Grace rated it did not like it

Shelves: only-once, fiction, post-apocalyptic

This was one of those books where I had to force myself to finish. Not only did I spend entirely too much time arguing with the cherry-picked ideas and narratives, but I also had to repeatedly pause it while listening to my historian husband rant about how wrong Harari got it.

All together, it was a bit of a waste of time. It took until nearly the end to understand that Harari worships data and transhumanism, and thinks that a majority of the world's will follow suit. Clearly the amount of time ...more

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Nov 28, 2017 Don rated it it was amazing

Shelves: history, non-fiction

If I don’t update my body’s anti-virus program regularly, I will wake up one day to discover that the millions of nano-robots coursing through my veins are now controlled by a North Korean hacker.

That’s the kind of provocative statement that Harari writes in Homo Deus: A Brief History Of Tomorrow, his follow up book to his wildly popular Sapiens. Half of this book is a history of humanism and liberalism, and the other half is what might come next. He’s not taking a stand and warning us to turn b ...more

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