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A review by sidekicksam
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
informative
medium-paced
4.25
A re-read on audio, and the main messages of the book still hold up, despite things having changed so significantly after the first time reading it in 2018. The author bases his predictions for the future of humanity on his historical knowledge and contexts, and I found the book to be thought-provoking once again.
In historical times, humans put a lot of faith in gods and deities, but in the future, the author predicts man to take the place of the god. Humanism will expand and humans will continue to look for ways of becoming immortal. But at the same time, we're making ourselves redundant by developing machines and technology to take over our work - our added value as humans is slowly receding.
These topics are so interesting to think about, and reading it again after years of Covid and developments in the world of AI and ML, it is remarkable that the book is becoming more relevant. I'm curious how I'll feel about it in ten years, or twenty.
In historical times, humans put a lot of faith in gods and deities, but in the future, the author predicts man to take the place of the god. Humanism will expand and humans will continue to look for ways of becoming immortal. But at the same time, we're making ourselves redundant by developing machines and technology to take over our work - our added value as humans is slowly receding.
These topics are so interesting to think about, and reading it again after years of Covid and developments in the world of AI and ML, it is remarkable that the book is becoming more relevant. I'm curious how I'll feel about it in ten years, or twenty.