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Nella seconda metà del XX secolo l'umanità è riuscita in un'impresa che per migliaia di anni è parsa impossibile: tenere sotto controllo carestie, pestilenze e guerre. Oggi è più probabile che l'uomo medio muoia per un'abbuffata da McDonald's piuttosto che per la siccità, il virus Ebola o un attacco di al-Qaida. Nel XXI secolo, in un mondo ormai libero dalle epidemie, economicamente prospero e in pace, coltiviamo con strumenti sempre più potenti l'ambizione antica di elevarci al rango di divinità, di trasformare "Homo sapiens" in "Homo Deus". E allora cosa accadrà quando robotica, intelligenza artificiale e ingegneria genetica saranno messe al servizio della ricerca dell'immortalità e della felicità eterna? Harari racconta sogni e incubi che daranno forma al XXI secolo in una sintesi audace e lucidissima di storia, filosofia, scienza e tecnologia, e ci mette in guardia: il genere umano rischia di rendere sé stesso superfluo. Saremo in grado di proteggere questo fragile pianeta e l'umanità stessa dai nostri nuovi poteri divini?
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- Pagine: 560
- Data di uscita: 30-08-2018
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This book reads like the author read a number of popular science articles, watched some sci-fi movies, attended a transhumanist meetup, got just a bit high on weed and then started writing.
Harari is a fantastic historian: he writes effortlessly and fascinatingly about historic trends, and has a great big picture perspective of the revolutions and contexts of historical progression. Harari, however, is not a good futurologist and an absolutely terrible cognitive scientist. Being educate Leggi tutto
Homo Obsoletus The audacious first act, Sapiens, ended with a wild and apocalyptic prophesy - that the Sapiens were cooking up the next epochal revolution that will overshadow the previous three: the cognitive, agricultural and scientific/industrial revolutions. Home Deus, the second act, is the full Leggi tutto
Homo Deus is not quite as factual and cohesive as Sapiens . It falls into the realm of speculation rather than trying to organise and make sense of the world. Sapiens was fantastic because it was almost like a novelisation of human history. It was dramatic and loaded with exciting revelations about w Leggi tutto
This is a book focusing on the future of humanity. Harari focuses on many exciting topics like whether human beings will be able to overcome death. He also discusses the future of medical science and how AI will alter medical science. He touches the future of almost all spheres of life in this b
This is a powerful book by a truly insightful author. I recently read Harari's previous great book, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind , and I enjoyed this one just as much. There is so much packed into Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow , that it is hard to do justice to the book in a review. Leggi tutto
“This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom – we cannot avoid being shaped by the past.” The title and the premise of Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus: A Brief Histo Leggi tutto
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