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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.
Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough, yet riveting—famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda.
What then will replace famine, plague, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies will we set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus.
With the same insight and clarity that made Sapiens an international hit and a New York Times bestseller, Harari maps out our future.
媒体推荐“Homo Deus will shock you. It will entertain you. Above all, it will make you think in ways you had not thought before. (Marcus Sakey, award-winning author of The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes and The AmateursDaniel Kahneman, author of Thinking Fast, and Slow)
“Thrilling to watch such a talented author trample so freely across so many disciplines... Harrari’s skill lies in the way he tilts the prism in all these fields and looks at the world in different ways, providing fresh angles on what we thought we knew... scintillating.” (The Financial Times)
“Spellbinding… This is a very intelligent book, full of sharp insights and mordant wit... It is a quirky and cool book, with a sliver of ice at its heart... It is hard to imagine anyone could read this book without getting an occasional, vertiginous thrill.” (The Guardian)
“What elevates Harari above many chroniclers of our age is his exceptional clarity and focus.” (London Sunday Times)
“A remarkable book, full of insights and thoughtful reinterpretations of what we thought we knew about ourselves and our history.” (The Guardian)
“[A] great book…not only alters the way you see the world after you’ve read it, it also casts the past in a different light. In Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari shows us where mankind is headed in an absolutely clear-sighted & accessible manner.” (Mail on Sunday)
“Like all great epics, Sapiens demanded a sequel. Homo Deus, in which that likely apocalyptic future is imagined in spooling detail, is that book. It is a highly seductive scenario planner for the numerous ways in which we might overreach ourselves.” (The Observer (London))
“Harari is an intellectual magpie who has plucked theories and data from many disciplines - including philosophy, theology, computer science and biology - to produce a brilliantly original, thought-provoking and important study of where mankind is heading.” (Evening Standard (London))
Praise for Sapiens:“I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history . . . you’ll have a hard time putting it down.” (Bill Gates)
“Thank God someone finally wrote [this] exact book.” (Sebastian Junger, New York Times Book Review)
“Harari is an exceptional writer, who seems to have been specially chosen by the muses as a conduit for the zeitgeist… Fascinating reading.” (Times Literary Supplement (London))
“Sapiens takes readers on a sweeping tour of the history of our species…. Harari’s formidable intellect sheds light on the biggest breakthroughs in the human story…important reading for serious-minded, self-reflective sapiens.” (Washington Post)
“Sapiens tackles the biggest questions of history and of the modern world, and it is written in unforgettably vivid language.” (Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, and The World until Yesterday)
“In Sapiens, Harari delves deep into our history as a species to help us understand who we are and what made us this way. An engrossing read.” (Dan Ariely, New York Times Bestselling author of Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, and The Honest Truth About Dishonesty)
Yuval Noah Harari has a PhD in history from the University of Oxford and now lectures at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in world history. Sapiens has been translated into 26 languages, and has already become an international bestseller in the UK, Spain, Slovenia, Taiwan, and Israel.
网友对Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow的评论
Finding perspective among the deluge of opinions and insights of all kinds we are being faced with due to the development of the internet, has become increasingly difficult. Harari succeeds in building that perspective from its roots up to where you suddenly realize that the brief future history is already here and that the precise problem of finding that perspective, is busy changing the destiny of us as a species and of our planet. A more grim and well reasoned view will be hard to get.
Despite it being a really difficult task to draw lines crossing every aspect of life we are witnessing, between what we intrinsically are as animals and what we have done to the world, Harari does it with seeming ease. Due to the way the book(s) are written it is easy to follow the build up in the reasoning from its basics via the bridging of various concepts, to a logical conclusion. The frequent re-capping to quickly summarise the structure of preceding chapters with the new chapter, helps staying with an otherwise daunting read.
These two books should be read widely as we as a species are faced with challenges we can all sense but which is understood by very few. The system IS running away from us and we have to understand why and start to think whether the future we are building is really the future we want.
It begins so well, but the latter third reads as though it was still in draft when the author decided he had better things to do than finish what he started. Worth reading for the fantastic insights he has crafted as building blocks, but I'm not sure he has finished the building.
Eye opener. Key to understand whays happening and whats coming up in the world. Also I consider it a good book to understand philosophy without lengthy books.
Note: the prognosis for mankind isn't nice so don't read if you like rosie endings.
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