Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari’s “Homo Deus: A Brief History of the Future” is the long-awaited continuation of the worldwide literary sensation “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.”

In his first book, “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” Oxford professor Harari explained how Homo sapiens came to dominate our planet. “Homo Deus” is an attempt to look ahead.

What will happen when Google and Facebook know us better than we know ourselves—our tastes, personal preferences, and political inclinations? What will billions of people do when computers push them out of the labor market and they form a new, useless class? How will religions respond to genetic engineering? What will be the consequences of shifting authority and competencies from living people to networked algorithms? What must humans do to protect the planet from their own destructive power?…

The main thing now, Harari believes, is to understand that we are at a crossroads and to grasp where the paths ahead lead. We cannot stop the course of history, but we can choose the direction we move.