Homo Deus

by Yuval Noah Harari

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1. Daniel PinkInterview

   Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari. My hope: It will help me better understand the implications of machine learning and artificial intelligence. My fear: His argument will terrify me!

2. Barbara TverskyInterview

   More recently I’ve shifted to non-fiction. Since Gödel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstader and The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker and Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, more and more eminent scholars have discovered they are also excellent communicators to the public. I read linguistics and cultural history and…

3. Alun CochraneInterview

   I’m on the early chapters of a history book my father in law recommended about Napoleon’s best men. And I am afraid to say I have left Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari about 1/3 of the way through and will definitely return to it in the future (but given it is a book about the future I am hoping he expected that).

4. Fin TaylorInterview
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6. George BerkowskiInterview

   I’m reading Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari. I am fascinated by massive societal and technological changes over the last 200 years and how they are transforming what it means to be human. Adaption and education have never been as critical to our survival as they are today.

7. Andrew CraigInterview

   Yuval Harari Noah’s Sapiens and Homo Deus could be options here too, but they’re not quite as focused on how much better human beings have been getting over time (and so much better than most people think or realise sadly).

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