Homo Deus

Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Homo Deus - means Man God.
I found it quite interesting - the author of the book declares himself an atheist and many times mentions that God does not exist.
So what about Man God - does he/she exist only in half?
The book reflects quite well this incompatibility of ideas used in the title.
Firstly the author tries to summarize all dimensions of human being in few hormones and DNA connections. They all can be easily controlled and ensure eternal biological life in total happiness.
Basically it exhausts the subject of the book so it could have been finished after the first chapter.
For some reason author continues the story for another 10 chapters and comes to a conclusion - there is no reason for further existence of humans.
Quite logical - if the is no God then there is no space for Homo Deus.


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