Deus Homo: A Brief History of Tomorrow 64381

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Times and international bestseller 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 famine in, чума, 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 will then replace famine, чума, and war at the top of the human agenda? As the self-made gods of planet earth, what destinies we will set ourselves, and which quests will we undertake? Deus Homo explores the projects, dreams nightmares and that will shape the twenty-first century—from overcoming death to creating artificial life. It asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how we will protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? This is the next stage of evolution. This is Deus Homo.

With the same insight clarity and that made Sapiens an international hit and a New York Times bestseller, Harari maps out our future.