HOMO DEUS

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Dr Yuval Noah Harari has a PhD in History from the University of Oxford and now lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem specialising in World History. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind has become an international phenomenon attracting a legion of fans from Bill Gates and Barack Obama to Chris Evans and Jarvis Cocker and is published in over 45 languages worldwide. It was a Sunday Times Number One bestseller and was in the Top Ten for over nine months in paperback. His followup to Sapiens Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow was also a Top Ten Bestseller and was described by the Guardian as śeven more readable even more important than his excellent Sapiens.**From the author of the global phenomenon Sapiens****A Guardian Book of the Year****An Evening Standard Book of the Year****A TLS Book of the Year**śHomo 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 SlowYuval Noah Harari author of the bestselling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind envisions a nottoodistant 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 twentyfirst 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 obsoleteYou are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflictFamine is disappearingYou are at more risk of obesity than starvationDeath is just a technical problemEquality is out but immortality is inWhat does our future hold?Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where were going.Shows us where mankind is headed in an absolutely clearsighted and accessible mannerEven more readable even more important than his excellent SapiensAn exhilarating book that takes the reader deep into questions of identity consciousness and intelligenceA brilliantly original thoughtprovoking and important study of where mankind is heading.Spellbinding a quirky and cool book with a sliver of ice at its heartAn intoxicating brew of science philosophy and futurism.Yuval Noah Harari is the most entertaining and thoughtprovoking writer of nonfiction at the moment. As with Sapiens you finish the book feeling much wiserAn exhilarating book that takes the reader deep into questions of identity consciousness and intelligence Harari is a naturally gifted explainer invariably ready with a telling anecdote or memorable analogy. As a result its tempting to see him less as historian than as some kind of allpurpose sage.Sets out with enviable (and alarming) lucidity the massive challenges now facing our species as genetic technologies AI and

Data Publikacji: 2016-09-08
Wymiary: 243 mm 164 mm 40 mm 1176 gr