Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Disclaimer: There are my initial thoughts after finishing the book. This book reads like, as the title states, a reddit post. There is an underlying tone of "look how clever I am" while still bring up some interesting ideas. At times it felt as though the author was promoting their individual dogma rather than providing an objective analysis of the subjects. That being said there were some very engaging portions of the text, and there were some...read more

Fascinating and intricate. Harari builds a spiderweb, starting with the history of human thought, building and building until you understand how plausible his predictions of the future are.

This was the first time I had encountered this particular explanation of why we should study history- not just to avoid repeating it, but to understand that the actions that we take as a given are actually options. (See his section on lawns.)

This was the first ...read more

wow, I'm depressed

Have not read a book that has forced me to think so profoundly about our future as a species. Sure I worry about climate change, how to resolve war and injustice and how industries / jobs may change but this blew open the lid with a range of questions, ideas and potential changes that I've never considered. It makes you realize that we have totally pointless political conversations today. In my country we're debating same sex marriage at the mome...read more

Not quite as gripping as Sapiens, but thought-provoking and well written. I'd score it 8/10.