Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari

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Chapters

DEDICATION — 1 min
A brief dedication sets a quiet baseline: the future is not only a technical question, but a human…
CHAPTER 1 — The New Human Agenda — 1 min
For most of history, people begged the gods to spare them famine, plague, and war. Today, those disasters…
PART I: Homo Sapiens Conquers the World — 1 min
CHAPTER 2 — The Anthropocene — 1 min
Humans became the planet’s most decisive force without needing claws or fangs. By changing landscapes, breeding animals, and…
CHAPTER 3 — The Human Spark — 1 min
What made sapiens dominant wasn’t individual brilliance. It was collective imagination—the ability to bind strangers together around shared…
PART II: Homo Sapiens Gives Meaning to the World — 1 min
CHAPTER 4 — The Storytellers — 1 min
Humans don’t experience reality raw. They filter it through stories: myths about gods, flags, markets, rights, and the…
CHAPTER 5 — The Odd Couple — 1 min
Science prides itself on facts, yet it rides inside human myths. Even advanced labs depend on stories about…
CHAPTER 6 — The Modern Covenant — 1 min
Modernity offers a deal: stop searching for a prewritten cosmic script, and in return gain the ability to…
CHAPTER 7 — The Humanist Revolution — 1 min
When old gods lose their throne, something must decide right and wrong. Humanism answers by elevating the inner…
PART III: Homo Sapiens Loses Control — 1 min
CHAPTER 8 — The Time Bomb in the Laboratory — 1 min
The next revolution is new hardware: brains and bodies edited, enhanced, engineered. Once biology becomes code, power shifts…
CHAPTER 9 — The Great Decoupling — 1 min
For centuries, economic value was tied to human labor and human minds. Even powerful elites still depended on…
CHAPTER 10 — The Ocean of Consciousness — 1 min
Humanism treats consciousness as precious: feelings give meaning, and inner experience makes life worth living. Yet the “self”…
CHAPTER 11 — The Data Religion — 1 min
A new creed grows from a blunt claim: organisms are algorithms, and life is information processing. If that…
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS — Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow — 1 min
Acknowledgements remind you that “a single author” is usually a convenient fiction. Behind the voice sits a network:…
IMAGE CREDITS — 1 min
The illustrations in this book are not decoration; they are part of the argument. Images compress complex systems…
INDEX — Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow — 1 min
An index looks humble, but it reveals the book’s real terrain. It lists the recurring objects of obsession:…
NOTES — Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow — 1 min
The notes section is a second, quieter book running beneath the first: a trail of sources, clarifications, and…