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Summary: Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari| Book Summary | Readtrepreneur
Mankind is undoubtedly one interesting species. We have managed to overcome and even come up with solutions to major world problems like famine, plague, and war.
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Mankind is undoubtedly one interesting species. We have managed to overcome and even come up with solutions to major world problems like famine, plague, and war.
This book Homo Deus discusses the evolution of man over the years; from simple-minded beings who believed in God to intelligent man who questions God’s existence and would rather rely on Science and data computation to get their answers.
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Homo Deus tells us of the journey throughout man’s quest for power as they attempt to become more godlike, and the reasons behind why they could accomplish so much.
Humankind has always thought of themselves as more superior than the other species and believed that their existence has great meaning and meant for a higher purpose.P.S. Open your eyes and mind as you learn more about our own species – mankind. As we read along, Homo Deus will make us ponder – Are we really that great as we think? Are we bettering ourselves, or self-destructing?
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Published July 21, 2017
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May 27, 2025
This summary book seems to be poorly written, with odd grammar resembling the English-language copy for a low-cost product made in China. For example, the first page has a paragraph with two errors:
1. Misspelling of "minuscule". This is one of the more pitiable typos a person can make, because the simpler word "tiny" means the same thing, but the writer likely used the fancier synonym in an attempt to sound more learned. This isn't the flex that the author thinks it is. It's more like the NFL player who gives himself a season-ending injury by celebrating after a play.
2. Antibiotics have no effect on viruses, because viruses are inert particles when outside of a host organism. Viruses don't metabolize, and antibiotics are chemicals that disrupt the metabolisms of bacteria. Perhaps the author meant to say "antiviral drugs" which can disrupt the replication of some viruses in some hosts. And infectious bacteria for their part have been evolving antibiotic resistance, reducing the number of antibiotics that are both lethal to bacteria and safe for humans. Phage therapy might have to make a comeback, oddly enough: using viruses that infect bacteria to treat humans who are infected by bacteria. Thus it's still early to declare victory over infectious disease, despite the great strides modern medicine has made. Incidentally, as I write this review in May, 2025, almost six years since COVID-19 emerged, that disease is still killing around 300 Americans per week.
The writing quality in this summary is rough enough to make it somewhat painful to read, and to make the reader grateful for its mercifully short length. This is in sharp contrast to a competing series of summary books, such as the Summary and Analysis of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Worth Books. While I disagree with some of the claims in those books, at least they are in English, and not in whatever language this is. Another languistic oddity is the use of "underlining" where the author seems to mean "underlying":
Since I haven't yet read the original Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2015) by Yuval Noah Harari, I can't speak to how accurately this summary book reflects the views of Harari. However, I can say that just about everything in this summary book seemed obvious to me, as I expect it would be obvious to anyone who had done some modest reading in evolutionary biology, Artificial Intelligence, history, psychology, and futurism. Perhaps Harari has become so celebrated because a lot of people out there haven't done this kind of reading already, and reading him comes as something like a revelation to them. However, as I write this review in May, 2025, the book's publication year of 2015 was a long time ago in "computer years" - the ongoing AI boom was just getting started, and the seminal publication ("Attention Is All You Need") wouldn't come out until 2017. That publication led in turn to the wave of public-facing Large Language Models that are taking the world by storm. If you spend some time chatting with the likes of ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, etc. in their current forms, perhaps like me you will wonder how the millions of Americans who still believe in a literal Noah's Ark and thought a rapist was the best choice to be U.S. President are going to have jobs in a few years.
Humans have been able to get away with being remarkaby stupid for a long time, because until now, humans have never had any real competition. I've been pretty well convinced humans were going to get some real competition, since I first started reading about Artificial Intelligence in the 1980s. And today we finally have AI that begins to live up to some of the hype.
Any book that tries to predict the future will typically only project a potential future by extrapolating from whatever current trends the prognosticator happens to consider. This is an important distinction that every futurist needs to acknowledge up-front:
1. Prediction: a claim about what will happen in the future.
2. Projection: a claim about what will happen in the future, should some particular current trend(s) continue.
This summary book doesn't make that distinction explicit. I'll have to read the original Harari to see if he does. But one cautionary note: this summary book says nothing about climate change. If Harari is projecting to the future based on current trends in computing, while ignoring current trends on humans destroying the habitable climate that allowed civilization to begin and flourish, then the projections might turn out to be grossly in error. The transhumanist party might never get a chance, if civilization collapses first, like a shipwreck victim who drowns within sight of land, unable to swim the last bit of distance.
"Invisible armadas are further significant in this context. The ever fragile human that was tortured to death by the very miniscule bacteria and viruses has started to gain a better position. The bacteria and viruses now face the destruction brought upon them by antibiotics. While science is further evolving to create better fighting bodies, only a few realize that the same infectious germs can be used to wipe out whole nations in war situations."
1. Misspelling of "minuscule". This is one of the more pitiable typos a person can make, because the simpler word "tiny" means the same thing, but the writer likely used the fancier synonym in an attempt to sound more learned. This isn't the flex that the author thinks it is. It's more like the NFL player who gives himself a season-ending injury by celebrating after a play.
2. Antibiotics have no effect on viruses, because viruses are inert particles when outside of a host organism. Viruses don't metabolize, and antibiotics are chemicals that disrupt the metabolisms of bacteria. Perhaps the author meant to say "antiviral drugs" which can disrupt the replication of some viruses in some hosts. And infectious bacteria for their part have been evolving antibiotic resistance, reducing the number of antibiotics that are both lethal to bacteria and safe for humans. Phage therapy might have to make a comeback, oddly enough: using viruses that infect bacteria to treat humans who are infected by bacteria. Thus it's still early to declare victory over infectious disease, despite the great strides modern medicine has made. Incidentally, as I write this review in May, 2025, almost six years since COVID-19 emerged, that disease is still killing around 300 Americans per week.
The writing quality in this summary is rough enough to make it somewhat painful to read, and to make the reader grateful for its mercifully short length. This is in sharp contrast to a competing series of summary books, such as the Summary and Analysis of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Worth Books. While I disagree with some of the claims in those books, at least they are in English, and not in whatever language this is. Another languistic oddity is the use of "underlining" where the author seems to mean "underlying":
However, if humans do end up accomplishing such control, techno-humanism would not be able to handle it since this form of technologies cannot be handled if the underlining belief is that the human experience and will are the utmost roots of meaning and authority.
Since I haven't yet read the original Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2015) by Yuval Noah Harari, I can't speak to how accurately this summary book reflects the views of Harari. However, I can say that just about everything in this summary book seemed obvious to me, as I expect it would be obvious to anyone who had done some modest reading in evolutionary biology, Artificial Intelligence, history, psychology, and futurism. Perhaps Harari has become so celebrated because a lot of people out there haven't done this kind of reading already, and reading him comes as something like a revelation to them. However, as I write this review in May, 2025, the book's publication year of 2015 was a long time ago in "computer years" - the ongoing AI boom was just getting started, and the seminal publication ("Attention Is All You Need") wouldn't come out until 2017. That publication led in turn to the wave of public-facing Large Language Models that are taking the world by storm. If you spend some time chatting with the likes of ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, etc. in their current forms, perhaps like me you will wonder how the millions of Americans who still believe in a literal Noah's Ark and thought a rapist was the best choice to be U.S. President are going to have jobs in a few years.
Humans have been able to get away with being remarkaby stupid for a long time, because until now, humans have never had any real competition. I've been pretty well convinced humans were going to get some real competition, since I first started reading about Artificial Intelligence in the 1980s. And today we finally have AI that begins to live up to some of the hype.
Any book that tries to predict the future will typically only project a potential future by extrapolating from whatever current trends the prognosticator happens to consider. This is an important distinction that every futurist needs to acknowledge up-front:
1. Prediction: a claim about what will happen in the future.
2. Projection: a claim about what will happen in the future, should some particular current trend(s) continue.
This summary book doesn't make that distinction explicit. I'll have to read the original Harari to see if he does. But one cautionary note: this summary book says nothing about climate change. If Harari is projecting to the future based on current trends in computing, while ignoring current trends on humans destroying the habitable climate that allowed civilization to begin and flourish, then the projections might turn out to be grossly in error. The transhumanist party might never get a chance, if civilization collapses first, like a shipwreck victim who drowns within sight of land, unable to swim the last bit of distance.
December 26, 2017
Piece of trash.
This synopsis of Homo Deus is garbage. It is filled with misrepresentations, typos, and inaccuracies. This book is a disservice to Harari.
This synopsis of Homo Deus is garbage. It is filled with misrepresentations, typos, and inaccuracies. This book is a disservice to Harari.
April 1, 2022
Yuval Noah Harari may be the first global public intellectual to be the native to the 21 century, while other authors are carpetbaggers, hauling their out of day think in to the new millennium.
Few historians have a good grasp of the current advances in biology.
Few philosophies of religion are interesting in how modern science understand the 'consciousness'.
Few economists can explain the essential difference precisely between getting large-scale people to cooperate and small team to interact, using historical, psychological and zoological theories at the same time.
Yuval Harari, such a generalist, bring it all together and give us sharp insights and mordant wit into the modern world.
Mr. Harari was armed with a big idea: that the human beings will change more in the next century than they have in all of their previous existence. The combination of bioTech and AI may enable some people to be digitally enhanced, becoming Homo Deus. The new longevity and super-human qualities are likely to be the preserve of the techno super-rich, the masters of the data universe. Meanwhile, the redundancy of labor, supplanted by efficient machines, will create an enormous “useless class”, without economic or military purpose. As this happens, the concepts of society, consciousness and morality will need to be totally revised. Homo Deus, in which that likely apocalyptic future is imagined in spooling detail, is that book.
Despite the hyperbole above, the book contains many Edelsteins.
In “Homo Deus” , Yuval Noah Harari offers an elegy for the end of the liberal millennium, which he sees as giving way to post-humanism: the coming of artificial intelligence that may leave us contented and helpless.
In general, this book is a collection of ideas, not a fully fledged cosmology, but I still really enjoy the process of accompany Mr. Harari as he fascinatingly peers into the future.
Few historians have a good grasp of the current advances in biology.
Few philosophies of religion are interesting in how modern science understand the 'consciousness'.
Few economists can explain the essential difference precisely between getting large-scale people to cooperate and small team to interact, using historical, psychological and zoological theories at the same time.
Yuval Harari, such a generalist, bring it all together and give us sharp insights and mordant wit into the modern world.
Mr. Harari was armed with a big idea: that the human beings will change more in the next century than they have in all of their previous existence. The combination of bioTech and AI may enable some people to be digitally enhanced, becoming Homo Deus. The new longevity and super-human qualities are likely to be the preserve of the techno super-rich, the masters of the data universe. Meanwhile, the redundancy of labor, supplanted by efficient machines, will create an enormous “useless class”, without economic or military purpose. As this happens, the concepts of society, consciousness and morality will need to be totally revised. Homo Deus, in which that likely apocalyptic future is imagined in spooling detail, is that book.
Despite the hyperbole above, the book contains many Edelsteins.
In “Homo Deus” , Yuval Noah Harari offers an elegy for the end of the liberal millennium, which he sees as giving way to post-humanism: the coming of artificial intelligence that may leave us contented and helpless.
In general, this book is a collection of ideas, not a fully fledged cosmology, but I still really enjoy the process of accompany Mr. Harari as he fascinatingly peers into the future.
July 15, 2018
Read this one first. The whole schpiel on religion is totally worth it.
March 8, 2018
Great summary
Easy to read. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in reading 'Homo Deus', and I still want to read the actual book.
Easy to read. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in reading 'Homo Deus', and I still want to read the actual book.
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