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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: What heights we reach! Humanity’s ambitions shift every day.
Chapter 3: Humans claimed dominance over animals and demonstrated it through collective cooperation.
Chapter 4: Religion has given us stories that capture and express moral dilemmas.
Chapter 5: Modernity lets us shape our lives. But has it stripped life of meaning?
Chapter 6: Liberal societies find meaning in human experience, not in God.
Chapter 7: Modern science endangers liberalism at its core.
Chapter 8: Algorithms and technology will eventually govern our lives.
Chapter 9: As algorithms grow ever stronger, we must decide: resist them or let them win?
Description
Homo Deus (2015) explains how we came to be the planet’s dominant species and uncovers a prediction for the future of humanity. It examines our present humanist state, the notion of individual choice and how we persist in worshipping the individual. It also reveals how science and technology will eventually make humans subservient to computer algorithms.
Who Should Listen
- People seeking to understand humankind’s history of progress
- Technophiles wishing to learn more about the future
- Technophobes who want to prepare themselves for the worst