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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

2.0

Not a horrible book, but not what I was hoping for. I was expecting a modern philosophical treatise with a logical analysis that would provide unique insights (or at least theories/boondoggles or what-have-you) into human nature and the progression of the human race. What I got was pop-pablum at its most inane. The author makes the same point 52 different ways in every chapter and every one of them is trite and fallacious. He compiles and presents some pre-existing notions and they may be interesting for the reader who has not run into them before (humanism as a religion, dataism, the biological algorithm, etc.), but he presents nothing unique or original at all and his conclusions are only either the most obvious and mediocre or the most ludicrous and unfounded with nothing in between. He takes long and rambling side-tracks (onto animal rights as one example) that never lead back to his main point except in the most tangential ways and eventually seem to just trail off. In short, there are much better books out there for the modern reader with an interest in the future of the species and modern philosophy.