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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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Sep 02, 2019 Tomislav rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: history, philosophy, 1-star, religion

I read the author-translated English version of Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, by Israeli History professor Yuval Noah Harari, in kindle ebook format. This follow-up to his best-selling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind was published originally in Hebrew in 2015, and later in English in 2016 (UK) and 2017 (US). I have not read Sapiens.

I started reading this work under the impression that it would be an explanation of the scientific consensus of the origins of modern humanity and ext ...more

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May 24, 2017 Abhishek rated it liked it

Shelves: valley-things

This follow up did not affect me the same way the Sapiens did, probably because it seemed to me that Harari was rehashing the same points he made in the earlier book. Nevertheless, as it usually is with Harari, no matter how cursorily one's reading is, there's always a turn of phrase - or a paragraph - that is very effective at making one pause and wonder what the hell it is that we have gotten ourselves into. ...more

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