Summary of Homo Deus - A Brief History of Tomorrow
By
Yuval Noah Harari
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Summary of Homo Deus - A Brief History of Tomorrow
Contents
Summary of Homo Deus: 1 The New Human Agenda
The discussion commenced with the biological poverty line. Humans are evolving very quickly. What used to be an issue in old times is not even a consideration today. The possibility that food wont be available because it has stopped growing is not even a consideration. A problem arises only when some human entity wants to keep things from others.
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.
Times have changed so much that breaking the law and initiating a war is no longer seen as worth the effort. Things that were previously a stimulant for war mongering no longer count. People only want to live peacefully so that they can achieve more in their lives.
Science is certainly moving forward. While it used to concern itself with keeping people alive despite infections and illnesses, now it has started to worry about keeping the human active for longer periods of time. The young human would hence ultimately gain a state where lives would be longer and more productive.
Happiness is a struggle within itself and that might be the second thing that the new scientists would try to make globally apparent. The struggle for happiness is more important to all the human beings but what will be the answer to this need is still a mystery.
Homo Sapiens is evolving and this evolution will be further forced by the science experts in future as they would ensure that only the best of human parts remain and the rest of the human comes in rhythm with machines. The future would involve a more perfect human or would the human convert into a deity as it continues to solve its own problems?
There is literally no end to the progress from the scientific discoveries that are expected to come in the following years and decades. Curiosity has led to a state where the discoveries are directed towards one thing and yet another beneficial thing is found and consequently used for that very purpose.
Knowledges value is constantly fluctuating. People have power when they have knowledge but since the current knowledge is coming as humans at the speed of light, the scope of knowledge is becoming limited in what and where the said knowledge can be used.
The past can easily dictate the future of a place, of an event or subject and it is entirely up to the said subject to recognize that past or make something new along the way.
The benefits discussed in the book till this moment are something that can actually turn around and backfire on human beings themselves since they cannot actually forecast all the possible consequences of the things that they keep on introducing through constant inventions.
Summary of Homo Deus: Part I - Homo Sapiens Conquers the World
2 The Anthropocene
While the current epoch can be rightly called Holocene, it would be best to regard the period as Anthropocene because of the influence that humans had on the organization of this time period. Humans have been limited by natural disasters. Animals on the other hand have been limited as a consequence of the humans habits. The changes in the numbers of animals that have been blamed on humans are just that; humans have acted with their naivet and left the planet in its current form.
Humans were more in tune with animals in previous times, which is an entirely surprising revelation since the current human only cares for economic progress and doesnt care if he transgresses and affects the biosphere negatively enough to destroy some other animals. Interestingly, the author considered that it is through the Bible that one learns that animals dont mean humans any good i.e. an interpretation of the snakes acts.
Humans have evolved with the agricultural revolution and yet their needs remain the same. Similarly, animals have also been changed enough to meet the needs of the modern men but they also have the same needs. The different beings however have similar needs psychologically and they are not being given the type of attention that they require; the human need drives their existence.
This gives rise to the statement that organisms are algorithms. Animals are just as psychologically developed as the average human being. The difference between wild animals and the human beings is not much since both share the hormonal make up that drives them to do certain things. The miracle of birth and the subsequent attachment with the parents being one of the features that is most experimented upon. The lethal actions of humans however ensure that the parent and offspring remain separated.
Humans have learned to differentiate over time between things they can control and things they cannot control within the natural ecosystem. The agricultural deal is hence basically limited control that the humans employ over specific creatures, considering themselves rulers over these creatures.
The humans that have till now destroyed the ecosystem in their own favor are going to face another turn of events. While the past showed how the animals have been subjected to the evils of humans, the future is something that is going to lower the value of humans themselves.
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