Combining historical insights of human kind with latest technological and scientific developments this book paints a very broad canvas against which to asses LT future trends. The author raises the question whether homo sapiens will survive altogether and be replaced by homo deus, a new superhuman caste. The new inequality will be between these new superhumans, with upgraded brains and bodies, and the "useless class of humans".

1. Homo Deus – A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari
Book review/summary by Eddy J. Schuermans

2. Homo Deus – A Brief History of Tomorrow
Part I
Homo Sapiens – the Anthropocene Epoch
Homo Erectus
2000 K BC
9 K BC
Agricultural
RevoluLon
1500 AD
ScienLfic
RevoluLon
1950 AD
Technological
RevoluLon
70 K BC
CogniLeve
RevoluLon
The New Human Agenda
- Concurred famine, plague & war
- Next targets will be immortality,
happiness and divinity (powers of
creaLon destrucLon)
Upgrading the human body & mind
- Biological engineering
- Cyborg engineering
- Engineering of non organic beings
Homo Deus, the end of Homo Sapiens
- From natural selecLon to intelligent
design
- Extend life from the organic realm into
the inorganic
Merge into 1 ecological unit- large scale exLncLon

3. Homo Erectus
2000 K BC
Homo Sapiens – the Anthropocene Epoch
9 K BC
Agricultural
RevoluLon
1500 AD
ScienLfic
RevoluLon
1950 AD
Technological
RevoluLon
70 K BC
CogniLeve
RevoluLon Homo Deus
Animism (Ecosystem parliament)
Theist religions (ecosystem – God(s) – human)
Humanism (ecosystem – Human) – liberalism,
socialism and evoluLonary humanism
Growth & capitalism dominate
The human spark
• CooperaLon - Storytelling – Myths – IntersubjecLve
enLLes - Religion provides Meaning and its purpose is to
maintain large scale social order (Authority).
• However alignment with technological and economic
realiLes maer to stay relevant, eg geneLc engineering,
arLficial intelligence (algorLhms and big data)
Techno Religions promising salvaLon through algorithms and genes - here on earth
with the help of technology rather than a]er death with the help of celesLal beings.
Homo Deus – A Brief History of Tomorrow
Part II
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4. Homo Deus – A Brief History of Tomorrow
Part III
• Human being is all about algorithms – genes, hormones and neurons that obey
the same phsical and chemical laws governing the rest of reality
• Humans aren’t individuals . They are “dividuals”
• The life sciences undermine liberalism, arguing that the free individual is just a
ficiLonal tale concocted by an assembly of biochemical algorithms.
• Will democracy, the free market and human rights survive ?
• Humans are in danger of losing their economic value because
intelligence (algorithms) is decoupling from consciousness (opLonal)
• Organisms are algorithms. What does it maer whether the
alogrithms are manifested in carbon or silicon.
• Authority will shi] from individual humans to
networked algorithms
• What will people do ? The “useless class” - Games and drugs
• There will an elite class – new superhuman caste that will abandon its
liberal roots
Will require a brand-new package of religious beliefs and poliLcal insLtuLons
• Will homo sapiens survive alltogether ? Time to reLre Homo Sapiens !

5. Homo Deus – A Brief History of Tomorrow
Part III
Homo Sapiens – the Anthropocene Epoch
9 K BC
Agricultural
RevoluLon
1500 AD
ScienLfic
RevoluLon
1950 AD
Technological
RevoluLon
70 K BC
CogniLeve
RevoluLon
Techno Religions
I. Techno Humanism (conservaLve creed) - upgrading the human
mind through geneLc engineering, nanotechnology and brain-computer
interfaces
• to hold its own against the most sophisLcated non-concious algorithms.
• What about free will --à desires
From
IntersubjecLve
Realms
2nd CogniLve
RevoluLon
To unimaginable realms
Yet human centric

6. Homo Deus – A Brief History of Tomorrow
Part III
Techno Religions
II. The Data Religion – the universe consists of
data flows and the value of anything is determined by its
contribuLon to data processing. The informaLon flow 1
connecLng to the system provides MEANING.
Basis : the same mathemaLcal laws apply to both
biochemical and electronic algorithms
Dataism thereby collapses the barrier between animals
and machines, and expects electronic algorithms to
eventually decipher and outperform biochemical
algorithms.
From a homo centric to a data centric world view
The internet of All
Things
Live beyond carbon
limitaLons
Threats
- Complex system –
who owns what ?
- Mixing Godlike
technology with
myopic poliLcs
New commandments/values : freedom of informaLon – maximise data flow
and link everthing to the system
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