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The Reality Dysfunction
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Sera is a LO-EC, a human who gained superpowers as an unintended side effect of a biotechnological...
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Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can't die. Her recent troubles--widowhood, a failing business,...
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In South Africa, the future looks promising. Personal robots are making life easier for the working...
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow in Books
Jan 10, 2018
The implications for the developments in artificial intelligence and genetic engineering - and the combining of the two are mind-blowing and we ignore them at our peril. The same applies to the amount "the system" knows about us from how we use the internet. It is alarming how willingly we have walked down that path.
While Sapiens had a few historical tenets and facts that Harari was able to access with a clear argument, given his historian background, there was a tendency in this volume to set up unrealistic false dichotomies, and 'creatively' misinterpret belief systems in order to bolster his increasingly thin argument.
The thrust of what Harari is saying may well be true, but what I would have liked to see him do is to discuss the implications a bit more thoughtfully and, in effect, set an agenda for discussion.
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