Homo Deus von Yuval Noah Harari

Homo Deus
A Brief History of Tomorrow, Gelesen von Derek Perkins, Unabridged - 15 Hours
ISBN/EAN: 9780062955630
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 13 CDs, 15:00 Std.
Einband: Jewelcase (für CD/CD-ROM/DVD)
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In Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari examines humanity's future, offering a vision of tomorrow that at first seems incomprehensible but soon looks undeniable: humanity will soon lose not only its dominance, but its very meaning. Over the past century, humankind has managed to turn the uncontrollable forces of nature?namely, famine, plague, and war?into manageable challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams, and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century, from overcoming death to creating artificial life. But the pursuit of these very goals may ultimately render most human beings superfluous. We cannot stop the march of history, but we can influence its direction. Future-casting typically assumes that tomorrow will look much like today: we will possess amazing new technologies, but old humanist values like liberty and equality will still guide us. Homo Deus dismantles these assumptions and opens our eyes to a vast range of alternative possibilities, with provocative arguments: • The main products of the twenty-first-century economy will be bodies, brains, and minds. • The way humans have treated animals is a good indicator for how upgraded humans will treat us. • Democracy and the free market will both collapse and authority will shift from individual humans to networked algorithms. • Humans won't fight machines; they will merge with them. We are heading toward marriage rather than war. This is the next stage of evolution. This is Homo Deus.
Prof. Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and the bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and Sapiens: A Graphic History. His books have sold over 35 million copies in 65 languages, and he is considered one of the world's most influential public intellectuals today. The Guardian has credited Sapiens with revolutionizing the non-fiction market and popularizing ?brainy books?. In 2020 Harari joined forces with renowned comics artists David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave, to create Sapiens: A Graphic History: a radical adaptation of the original Sapiens into a graphic novel series. This illustrated collection casts Yuval Noah Harari in the role of guide, who takes the reader through the entire history of the human species, accompanied by a range of fictional characters and traveling through time, space and popular culture references. Born in Haifa, Israel, in 1976, Harari received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2002, and is currently a lecturer at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He originally specialized in world history, medieval history and military history, and his current research focuses on macro-historical questions such as: What is the relationship between history and biology? What is the essential difference between Homo sapiens and other animals? Is there justice in history? Does history have a direction? Did people become happier as history unfolded? What ethical questions do science and technology raise in the 21st century?