Product Name : Homo Deus : A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari (English Paperback)
Product Code: CCEDDCIAI
Description:
Name: Homo Deus
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Book Format: Paperback
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780062464347
Language: English
Pages: 501-600 Pages
Publish Year: 2017
Publisher: Vintage
Sub Genre: Other Self-Help Books
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER:
Yuval Noah Harari author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens returns with an equally original compelling and provocative book turning his focus toward humanity’s future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.:
Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine plague and war. This may seem hard to accept but as Harari explains in his trademark style—thorough yet riveting—famine plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers terrorists and criminals put together. The average American is a thousand times more likely to die from binging at McDonalds than from being blown up by Al Qaeda.:
What then will replace famine plague and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth what destinies will we set ourselves and which quests will we undertake? Homo Deus explores the projects dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go fr
