Homo Deus

In this vivid, challenging new book, the bestselling author of SAPIENS examines the implications of our newly acquired divine capabilities, from our desperate pursuit of happiness to our dogged quest for immortality. He explores howHomo Sapiensconquered the world, our current predicament and our possible futures. He asks, how do we avoid destruction, and what new world should we create?

Informationen zum Autor Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher and the global bestselling author of Sapiens , Homo Deus , 21 Lessons for the 21st Century , the graphic adaptation series Sapiens: A Graphic History , and Unstoppable Us , his first series of books for children. His books have sold over 55 million copies in 65 languages. He co-founded Sapienship an international social-impact company focused on education and storytelling with his husband, Itzik Yahav. Harari has a PhD from the University of Oxford and is currently a history professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a distinguished research fellow at the University of Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Klappentext THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going. 'Spellbinding' Guardian The world-renowned historian and intellectual Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: how can we protect this fragile world from our own destructive power? And what does our future hold? 'Even more readable, even more important, than his excellent Sapiens ' Kazuo Ishiguro ' Homo Deus will shock you. It will entertain you. It will make you think in ways you had not thought before' Daniel Kahneman, bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow Zusammenfassung Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: how can we protect this fragile world from our own destructive power?...

Vorwort
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going.

Autorentext

Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher and the global bestselling author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, the graphic adaptation series Sapiens: A Graphic History, and Unstoppable Us, his first series of books for children. His books have sold over 55 million copies in 65 languages. He co-founded Sapienship an international social-impact company focused on education and storytelling with his husband, Itzik Yahav. Harari has a PhD from the University of Oxford and is currently a history professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a distinguished research fellow at the University of Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

Klappentext

THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER

Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going.

'Spellbinding' Guardian

The world-renowned historian and intellectual Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from overcoming death to creating artificial life.

It asks the fundamental questions: how can we protect this fragile world from our own destructive power? And what does our future hold?

'Even more readable, even more important, than his excellent Sapiens' Kazuo Ishiguro

'Homo Deus will shock you. It will entertain you. It will make you think in ways you had not thought before' Daniel Kahneman, bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow

Zusammenfassung
Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond - from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: how can we protect this fragile world from our own destructive power?