Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the 21st century and beyond – from overcoming death to creating artificial life.

It asks the fundamental questions: how can we protect this fragile world from our own destructive power? And what does our future hold?

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14 hours and 53 minutes
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Yuval Noah Harari
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Derek Perkins
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8 Sept. 2016
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Listening Length	14 hours and 53 minutes
Author	Yuval Noah Harari
Narrator	Derek Perkins
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.co.uk Release Date	08 September 2016
Publisher	Penguin Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B01HGZ3TKE
Best Sellers Rank	241 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 1 in Bioengineering 1 in Biotechnology (Books) 2 in Future Studies

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person from England

Ghastly

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 November 2019

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He is actually attempting to sell us on the idea that Google choosing who we vote for would be a good thing... and that abandoning our individuality is in our best interests. This book is a distillation of everything that is wrong with the world, dressed up in a thousand clever and convincing arguments. I don't think I have ever been so creeped out. Notice that the word "groupthink" is conspicuously absent from the index... so is this the pill that everyone is swallowing now?

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Mr. D. J. Marsala

Brilliant, as per.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 December 2017

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As with Sapiens, this wasn't an easy read. However, it is very rewarding, insightful and thought-provoking - you will learn A LOT when reading this.

The best thing about it is the way Harari effortlessly threads different fields of anthropology, biology, neuroscience, behavioural economics, economics, psychology, history and philosophy.

I would say that some of the terminology could be easier to grasp; his breakdown of the liberalism world view and dataism could go over the heads of the layman.

Harai is a visionary; and this book sets out a well-backed up case for a warning for humanity as we approach an age dominated by genetic modification, AI and super-humans.

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OneRealReviewAmongstASeaOfFakes

Overly long view of today, overly short thoughts of future

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 May 2018

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Discussion of where we are today is insightful but goes on and on and on.
Discussion of where we might go tomorrow is too short and badly thought through; very badly thought through in fact.
Almost like it was constructed from existing material with a new ending added on. I haven't read Sapiens yet, but I'm suspicious that might the existing material bit...

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TonyDataMan

This does indeed change the way I think.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 October 2018

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I approached this book on recommendation from a friend. It didn’t take me long to realise that it does indeed change the way I see things. It is written in such a simple way, and yet it covers the most complex of theories and social mechanisms. I find myself saying “Well that’s so obvious, but I never saw it that way before, and I don’t know why”
It certainly helps me come to terms with my thoughts and beliefs about religion and humanity. It turns out I am a liberal humanist, now who would have thought!
It answers questions for me, such as “why are we here” (Why does there have to be a “why”?) and “where are we going?”
If I had stopped and put my thoughts down on paper, used common sense and considered the technical and medical world as it is, I would probably have come to the same conclusion contained in the book. It’s all a bit obvious, but we don’t think of it, and so we don’t know how to answer those questions. Do we really believe medical advances are going to slow down or stop? Do we really believe that technology advances are going to slow down or stop? The answer to both is “no”.
So, if that’s the case, it’s obvious that we will inevitably achieve immortality once aging and disease have been removed.
So then what? Imagine increasing our lives by just a quarter. When do we stop work? How do we support ourselves? What meaning will we have in our long long lives? Where’s the food coming from?
I love this book and I’m going to have to read it again, because it’s difficult to take it all in the first time through.

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Ian C King

A repetitive hobby-horse of facile reductionism and shallow analysis

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 December 2018

The larger the thought the smaller the thinking done to support it. A baggy book of sweeping assertions and little scholarship, which argues by setting up facile straw men (liberals, religion, communism etc, oh and the Catholic Church in particular, such spite, such bile) and glibly knocking the stuffing out of them. A sort of punch and Judy of geopolitics. A drooling paeon to Google, Facebook, Uber and Apple, apparently written by someone who deals in bite-sized apercus and crass generalisations. Ideal for the short attention span of the Internet generation but unforgiveable in a supposedly schiolarly work. Like listening to a stoned first year PPE student who has just discovered books for grown ups, a ragtag of slick but ultimately empty nostrums with virtually no supporting arguments. A lot of gushing, uncritical, geeky product placement for Google ( eg p390-391) is particularly grating. Some irritating stylistic tics (quoting unknown academics with no ascriptions or footnotes, constantly self-consciously using "her" instead of "him" or it or both in examples etc etc) too, that give it the feel of an undergraduate essay cobbled together from Wikipedia and Google Labs. And as for the politics, well, loving-kindness is not in the mix. Ayn Rand would be proud. Shamelessly uncritical of the gaping inequality so lovingly described described and proudly dismissive of the "little people". Boy does this guy love corporations and loathe people. It is embarrassing to read how uncritically Harari abases himself before the "elite" (like everything else in the book, never actually defined). I had thought that the disappointing second half of Sapiens would prove to have been an error of boyish enthusiasm, but I was wrong. Instead of building on the interesting insights in the first half of that book (presumably the part that attracted the approval of Jared Diamond) and jettisoning the more childish second half, the author has taken up the juvenile arrogance of the second half of that book and spun a whole new book out of it. Pity, to promise so much and yet deliver such rehashed thoughtlessness. Still, like all airport books, it sells. But then so does Catharine Cookson, but at least she can tell a story.

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