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  • A Brief History of Tomorrow
  • Written by: Yuval Noah Harari
  • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
  • Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (2,548 ratings)

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Homo Deus

Written by: Yuval Noah Harari
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
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Publisher's Summary

International best seller

From the author of the international best seller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind comes an extraordinary new book that explores the future of the human species.

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the best-selling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, envisions a not-too-distant world in which we face a new set of challenges. In Homo Deus, he examines our future with his trademark blend of science, history, philosophy, and every discipline in between.

Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams, and nightmares that will shape the 21st 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.

War is obsolete.

You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict.

Famine is disappearing.

You are at more risk of obesity than starvation.

Death is just a technical problem.

Equality is out - but immortality is in.

What does our future hold?

©2017 Yuval Noah Harari (P)2017 Penguin Random House Canada

What the critics say

" Homo Deus will shock you. It will entertain you. Above all, it will make you think in ways you had not thought before." (Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow)
"Israeli Professor Harari is one of today's most exciting and provocative thinkers. His innovative new book blends science, history, and philosophy to explore the future of humanity in the face of artificial intelligence and examine whether our species will be rendered completely redundant." ( Cambridge Network )

Editorial Review

Humanity has generally overcome many of the major problems it had to face in the past: war, famine and plagues. Now, it can turn its attention to different problems, such as scientific advancement and improving quality of life. But as technology takes over the world, what does it mean for us humans?

The title of the audiobook is derived from the Latin “Homo”, meaning human, and “Deus”, meaning God. We are achieving things that we once thought were impossible and are shedding some of our most fundamental values, such as religion. Humans are getting exponentially close to their image of the immortal and omnipotent God, but what are the repercussions of this evolution? Yuval Noah Harari explored the history of all of humankind in his international best-seller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. In Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, Harari looks forward to what the future may hold for us. His refreshing insights bring forth some unexpected ideas and ethical issues based on his knowledge as a historian.

Homo Deus was well received by critics, and was listed as one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2017 by Time Magazine - an impressive feat, considering the controversial nature of some of the topics he addresses. Award-winning audiobook narrator Derek Perkins once again lends his voice to Yuval Noah Harari to bring his ideas to life.

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Accept minor defects and enjoy this book

I listened to Harari's Homo Sapiens and Homo Deus back-to-back. As for Homo Sapiens, I really enjoyed listening to an audiobook with a reasonably entertaining blend of insights, history, and science. And Homo Devous did not disappoint me in having 15 hours more of that.

There is something I should note though. As I was listening, every now and then Harari talked about a topic that I knew about to a good extent and I couldn't not notice that he spices things up, adds a little drama to the topic or to the history of it, so that what he says is not a fully accurate reflection of the reality. I realized that if he views the topics I know about in that way, he should have a similar, spiced up view about other topics that I don't know much about.

So, as long as you understand and accept that, you will enjoy this book very much.

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The narrator does a fantastic job but following along with the book I find that he skips over entire paragraphs that shouldn't be left out.

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love this book

If you didn't like Sapiens because it reminded you of a textbook, I feel as if Homo Deus did the exact opposite by placing his opinion, beliefs, tboughts, etc. The research is so good, though I must say the audible book made it seem boring. The author's writing is both formal yet causal if that made it feel smooth. The voice actor made it seem dull and plain, but I still read this book and listen in to the audible book only because it's long.

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mindblown

you definitly need this book .
while walking I felt like sitting in a corner and keep listenning as my mind was questioning everything we ever known

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Not as good as homo sapiens but it's much easier to tell history than make up the future. still worth a read, Harari is a great abstract thinker.

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Not a sequel, in a delightful way

I believe Harari have managed to escape repeating himself very well in his second book in this series. You can read this book independently from the first one, and still appreciate it. This book is intended to be futuristic, but digs into history time to time, which I found very enjoyable.
As a techie, when Harari talks about data science or singularity of machine and men, I found his elaboration not very technically accurate, but still acceptable. That being said, he adds a deeper and more philosophical layer to his elaboration that I never found in other books on the subject.

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Sweeping story of humanity's past and future

One of the best books I read (heard) in a long time. A bit like Don Carlins hard core history and Kurtzweil Singularity, but more engaging and easier to follow.

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the wonderful encounter of spirit and science.

another amazing book by Harari that stands in the intersection of Science and Spirit, the past and the future, all to bring conscience to our present moment.

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It was a very compelling read. here are some moar wrdz. Only four words left?

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the future!

learn what the future will be like and brace yourself, because it is probably not what you think ✌️

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  • Adam K.
  • 2019-04-05

Job well done.

I really enjoyed this book. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in human kind.

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  • Greg S.
  • 2022-12-24

Important insights into future possibilities

A valuable read / listen to very plausible possibilities for human kind. An eye opening introduction to technology and human existence blended to evolve the superhuman. All of which appears inevitable and only a matter of time.

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  • Alex Rezansoff
  • 2022-02-19

Bonkers

This is half-baked vision of the future (with no evidence to support). It’s not a future I want to be a part of either. Predictions of people living to 500 years old, cyborgs, genetically engineered people with 3 hands, everyone on psychiatric medications. Sorry, I think he missed the mark on this book.

I was looking forward to being inspired by this book, but was severely disappointed. I have read other books by the author (more historical books) which were very good. But this one is a flop unfortunately. Little to no evidence to support his forecasts, and he paints a very depressing vision of the future.

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  • Meander
  • 2020-04-12

What an amazing look into the future

Such a vivivd mind opening book. I really enjoyed the narrator and the contents of the book. Highly recommend it.

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  • Ivan Sinenko
  • 2020-02-18

Not as good as the first one

But then again its imagining things to come eatjen than analysis of the past. Great book nonetheless

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  • Nicole Victoria Soo
  • 2019-11-28

very insightful and informative

a very interesting view of history and insight in prominent ideological pillars in history. informative and well reasoned projections.

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  • Todzai K Chabudapasi
  • 2019-03-09

Mind Changing

This book took me 3 months to finish due to my own personal discipline but its fascinating in how it opens your mind

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  • Petar Zlatanov
  • 2019-02-06

Great Book full of Details History and Predictions

This book is full of great predictions of our futer, by examining our history and culture patterns.

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  • SimonK
  • 2019-01-10

A must have if you finished Sapiens !

Good stuff, really nice facts that make you go like really !?! Well narrated and fun to listen only because of human curiosity.

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  • M L
  • 2018-12-15

awesome

great book. well thought out. I would recommend this to anyone who is wondering whats up with tomorrow.