Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari's Homo Deus is the sequel to Sapiens and turns its lens from where humans have been to where humans, and the algorithms now intertwined with them, may be heading. Harari argues that the modern world has largely solved the three classic horsemen of historical misery, famine, plague, and war, and that the next agenda items for human civilization are immortality, engineered happiness, and divinity. He surveys advances in biotechnology, machine learning, and big data and argues that liberal humanism, the secular religion of the last three centuries, is being quietly hollowed out by technologies that know our preferences better than we do. The book traces Dataism as an emerging worldview in which the highest value is not human experience but the free flow of information, and asks what it would mean for politics, work, and meaning if intelligence and consciousness become decoupled. Harari writes in the same lucid, provocative voice as Sapiens, offering a sweeping if controversial map of the next century.
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A historian argues that humans, having mostly conquered hunger and disease, are turning their tools toward upgrading themselves: longer lives, engineered minds, and algorithms that may run the show.
Reading Sapiens first is helpful but not strictly required. Homo Deus continues themes from Sapiens about humanity's future, but each book can be read on its own. Yuval Noah Harari completed the loose trilogy with 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.
Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, and Homo Deus combines history with speculative futurism. Some specific predictions and claims have been challenged by domain specialists. The book remains widely read as accessible big-picture nonfiction.
Homo Deus was written by Yuval Noah Harari, published in 2017 by HarperCollins Publishers.
Homo Deus is a standalone novel by Yuval Noah Harari, not part of a series.
Homo Deus is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
