Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

Enjoy high maximum transfers into more than 120 currencies while saving up to 90% over local banks! The cheap, fast way to send money abroad. Free transfer up to 500 USD!

Narratives. Great book. Great insights and it stands after COVID. The really great importance of storytelling and fundamental questions that are and have been shaping the world.

Homo Deus. An exploration of possible outcomes for humanity - frightening and inspiring. Harari’s projections offer a glimpse beyond the veil of ignorance burdened upon the present and revitalize wonderment in our time. Having read the book, it’s impossible to come away from the experience feeling that the present is lackluster. Forget the common refrain of “born too late to explore the earth, born too early to explore space” for we have more important horizons in our immediate sights - bliss, immortality, and divinity. This is the most important time to be alive, because we are at the end of the story that is Homo Sapiens. With any luck, we are the first generation of what comes next, and the abilities we develop will secure us the stars or suffocate us in the cradle.

Reflect Human future strategy. How to better use data, AI and digitalization so we create a better world, fixing human dilemas such as climate, inequality, hunger etc

Homo Sapiens have been around for thousands of years. If Darwin’s theory was true then by now there would be many intermediate forms of human by now. Homo Sapien skeletons hundreds of thousands of years old have been found and there are no differences at all. Shouldn’t there be a telltale sign of evolution by now? The answer is.... there’s not. Stop reading fairy tale books and find the meaning of our existence through the Bible & Qur’an, in the Qur’an there are many scientific miracles to be found, unlike the theory of evolution which has nothing to do with science.

Honest. Great read.

amazing. Agree or not, as there will be times you will not agree with Harari, let that be a clear indication that nobody can predict the future, yet this Historian makes way for things that are happening as I currently read through this book. He has turned history into an art form, and it has helped inspire and enlighten new paths of thinking for many, in many different fields. A true gift.

Footnotes not working. Please look at the footnotes in this version. They're not moving me to the actual footnote when I tap on them in the body of the text. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the nook and still nothing

Harari is Brilliant!. For Christmas, my daughter surprised me with Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari and I can truly say that I have never been so amazed with one person’s ability to convey several huge thoughts to me at once. But rather than overwhelming me, this very talented historian impressed me with his wonderful understandings of science, religions and life as he clarified topic after topic and delicately stitched the episodes together into a magnificent tableau of human evolution. A very savvy man, Harari’s bottom line has focused on the reality of human obsolescence and his take on the currently shifting trends toward humanism and beyond, as we confront issues of artificial intelligence and the emerging ideology of ‘big data’ head on. His first step for us is to know what differentiates Homo sapiens from all the other animals on the planet since emotions are not unique to humans. Emotions are biochemical algorithms that are vital for the survival and reproduction of all mammals and for us to better appreciate our life we must understand what an algorithm is. Simply stated, it is ‘a set of rules to be followed in a problem solving operation’ and it is arguably a most important concept in our digital world because biologists have recently reached the conclusion that the actions of humans are algorithms, even our own reproduction and survival, some very complicated algorithms! Next Harari sets out to help us to understand how it has worked to have Homo sapiens dominating our planet and giving the world meaning. This started over 70,000 years ago, when Sapiens began to talk about things that only existed in their imagination. His historical perspective shows us how man’s evolution got us to where we are. Not only were we smarter and more nimble-fingered, we were the only species capable of cooperating flexibly in large numbers. If not, our crafty brains and deft hands would still be splitting flint stone spear tips rather than atoms and have iPhones in them. But even 20,000 years ago, humankind was still much weaker than it is today; the basic abilities of individual humans had not changed much since the Stone Age. Sapiens rule the world now because only they can weave meaning into the web of laws, forces, entities and places that exists only in our common imagination. But where will we go next? A 2012 Gallup survey indicates that only 15 per cent of Americans think that Homo sapiens evolved through natural selection alone, free of all divine intervention while 46 per cent believe that God created humans in their current form sometime during the last 10,000 years. That now conflicts with what 21st century science and technology shows us daily and how religions based on men and gods are discounted and Dataism has collapsed the barriers between animals and machines. The competition becomes one where electronic algorithms attempt to decipher and outperform biochemical algorithms, parallel processing and distributed processing compete and cyberspace becomes crucial to our economy, our security and our daily lives. Dataists also believe that experiences are meaningless unless they are shared. Harari does remind us that much of the human mind is still uncharted territory and who knows what hidden talents we might yet discover in ourselves. He is enlightening, entertaining, open and optimistic and I struggle to encapsulate my total enjoyment of reading Homo Deus in this review; I recommend this book highly to everyone! Bob Magnant is the author of 'The Future Is At Your Fingertips' on iTunes, 'Domestic Satellite: An FCC Giant Step' and 'The Last Transition...', a fact-based novel about Iran. He writes about politics, globalization, the Internet and US policy; he lives in Jupiter, FL.

Second chance. time for change

Homo deus > Sapiens. This book is an excellent read. The way this book is read is imho better than sapiens. It reads easier, and has more interesting facts, and predictions about where our future is headed in our abandonment of homo sapiens into homo deus. Excellent book.

Excellent. There are still so many questions to answer , thanks for opening up the space to think and dialogue.

A Great Sequel To Sapiens. From war, famine and plagues to immortality, bliss and divinity. Are we bioelectric algorithms in an interconnected world of everything? What is our future? An intriguing and provocative book with which you may not totally agree but it certainly provides you with a lot to ponder.

Enlightening. Was never into history, however, this is the most enjoyment I’ve ever had being schooled.

Give Me A Break. Sapiens was fun and insightful, but Homo Deus is sanctimonious and weak. Take my review with a grain of salt - I only made it a third of the way through before crying uncle.

Homo Deus. The concepts behind this book fascinated me even more than Sapiens. However, despite an often annoying repetition of history and data, the author alluded to human love being a prospective “armor” against complete global takeover by DATA only once - with no further discussion on how love might save humans from extinction by data. I would “love” to hear your thoughts on love as savior.

Great historical thesis, too much speculation. This book has great, sweeping visions of the future and describes a great logical chain. I liked the historical reframings. However a lot of the prose is speculative and thinly-evidenced. The sentence structure is monotonous and professorial. Interesting book with a lot of novel ideas, but became a little tough to finish.

Homo deus. A vision of where we have been, who we are now, and what we may become. Professor Harari challenges the reader to ask the big question, where are we going as a species? He points out some options that may not be too pretty. Is the end of the line irrelevance? Give it a read. Come see for yourself.

Just pass. Over rated at best.

Great book.. Hard to put down.

Very interesting. Thank you for the book. It was very interesting.

Worst book I’ve ever encountered. Horrible poorly written. Do not recommend

Great book. Not as well as Sapiens a but worth reading and a fresh perspective. Fact check some of the things you may question as some facts can be interpreted differently.

Thought-provoking. Great follow up to Sapiens. Will re-read both, for sure. It’s been a long time since I’ve had a book absolutely shake my world, if ever, the way Sapiens and Homo Deus did.

Mind Lab Pro boosts work performance and productivity with nootropics for focus, multitasking under stress, creative problem-solving and more. Buy Now!

Discover how specific cryptocurrencies work — and get a bit of each crypto to try out for yourself. Coinbase is the easiest place to buy and sell cryptocurrency. Sign up and get started today.