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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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.
用戶評價
##Somewhat repetitive from time to time, but definitely worth every repetition!
評分##看過homo sapeisns或沒時間的話可以直接看第三章，腦洞蠻大的。當然，還是沒改稍嫌囉嗦的毛病……
評分##如前作般，用普通題材構建龐大的思想，赫拉利的未來接近美麗新世界。人類永不滿足，過去爭奪土地與能源，未來則爭奪進化與永生。人類對待其他物種的方式，也許預示神人將如何對待普通人類。未來沒有疾病，飢荒與戰爭，沒有未知，沒有重復的體腦勞動，甚至沒有痛苦，永生成為現實，神人與數據成為新的上帝與宗教。人類能否由此獲得更多的幸福？也許整體可能，個體未必。吊詭之處在，每當人類自認無所不知，無所不能，事後就被證明是愚蠢與自大。人類簡史與未來簡史，於我的意義在，串起近期的很多閱讀。歐洲史的現代社會發端，西方政治傳統的自由主義，源泉的個人主義，中東地緣現狀，博物學的物種平等，科學史與科學哲學，高頻交易，量子理論與相對論，必然的互聯網未來，基因的生物工程，宗教的秩序，道金斯與平剋。可見作者的知識脈絡與梳理能力。
評分##前麵部分真是有點囉嗦瞭，作者屬於舉例子狂人，幸好最後一部分提齣瞭幾個挺有意思的觀點補迴票價，總體是推薦的。
評分##過去一個月在上班的公交車上斷斷續續讀完。人類未來的命運道路或許從來沒有像現在這樣充滿不確定性，但能夠親眼見證Dataism對Humanism的衝擊，也是這個時代給我們的最大福利。接下來打算讀這個作者的前一本書Sapiens
評分##前麵部分真是有點囉嗦瞭，作者屬於舉例子狂人，幸好最後一部分提齣瞭幾個挺有意思的觀點補迴票價，總體是推薦的。
評分##Commuting讀物，終於讀完瞭，影響非常大，在我看來這本書最核心的其實是瓦解自由意誌，所以不會有幾個人真正理解到這一層，因為理解就意味著否定人文主義自由主義和人類存在的意義，所以讀完的那一刻，我內心的那個自我就已經跳樓自殺瞭。
評分##通過Audible有聲書聽讀完的。當然並不贊同一些觀點，但是的確能夠激發新的思考，比如：人本主義的閤理性，感受和經曆的價值，信息是否應該為王，人能否為自己的生命負責。
評分##機場讀物雞頭（complexity wise) 。什麼都說瞭一點，什麼也沒說。大概是一種，here are some interesting facts, what do you think? 的讀物。
