HOMO DEUS BOOK REVIEW | NOVEMBER 2017

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari - Book Review

After reading Homo Sapiens, the first book by Yuval Noah Harari I desperately knew I needed to read the next book. I loved the first book because Harari focused on the history of Humankind, but Homo Deus is focused on the future of our humankind. I'm not going to lie the overall message of this book is scary to say the least, this is a non-fiction book so it tells the truth or Harari's view of what's going to happen to our species. Harari focuses on the up and coming use of artificial intelligence as the overpowering oppression that's going to face the human species. Artificial intelligence may cause mass unemployment and may cause the entire wipeout of our species because it would control everything. There's also a focus on algorithms; during the second part of the novel there's the argument between liberalism and humanism. Science also maintains to be a massive part of the novel and focuses on how algorithms control our decisions and lives, with a contrasting view from liberalism that our brain controls our thoughts and how we should live. If you want a book that's going to make you question the society we live in and how we progress in to the next few decades and our species read these two books. I have seen reviews previous to reading Homo Deus saying that it becomes a little repetitive, which I see now because the same point is being repeated with a twist or more information added. The effect of repeating this information was in my opinion to emphasise what will and could happen in the future. If you want a book that is going to be completely honest about life as a whole and how our future is inevitably in the hands of robots or algorithms that humans have created, without a thought that it may lead to the extinction of the human species. Every book leaves an individual impact on the individual reader, to me this book made it clear that we are driving our own extinction, whether it be through specific ideologies such as humanism. Read this book if you want to understand your own interpretation of society, and how we have become the race we have, and how we are going destroy our species with the rise of technology. But, read the first one- Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind to understand how we got here. 

Happy Reading!