Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

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A timely wake-up call for our species.

Yuval Noah Harari, one of the deepest thinkers of our time, explores the future of humanity from a species obsessed with destruction to one determined to prevent it.

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Introduction

Humanity has long been obsessed with famine, plague, and war: the ultimate side effects of its commitment to progress. Despite our best efforts at harmony, spiritual awareness, and social movements, for millennia famine, plague, and war continued to dent our numbers.

Only in the present century have we managed to prevent and control those forces to a relative degree. But now that we have such power, what are we going to do with it? This Snapshot provides one possible answer to that profound question.

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