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Pros
Deus is an excellent follow up to * sapiens. It's logical, argumentatively balanced and riveting, especially part 3. Overall i preferred sapiens, so a more accurate rating would be a 3.
Harari takes a look at our post-human future, which, for those of us who value our individuality and sense of self does not make easy reading. It achieves its objective of helping us to understand better the trends we are currently experiencing and to... Read More
Cons
The book comes across as a scam. It must have got scratched/scuffed up in transit.
Read this or read 'sapiens'; don't bother reading both. It attempts to use the same funny/surprising style of sapiens, but fails. I think it's very unfortunate he didnt produce a book with greater rigour- esp as the middle section is more boring than ... Read More
Harari is an advocate for groupthink and dismisses the individual as an entity to change the course of society. It is embarrassing to read how uncritically harari abases himself before the elite. He lacks a profound understanding of human nature, pref... Read More
Highlights
Quality
Scary at times with the potential outcome of dataism as it could easily happen and were sleepwalking into it in the name of capitalism
Narrated with the same wit and intelligence that made sapiens such a muchloved bestseller harari takes a look at our posthuman ... Read More
Price
The book was in good condition and well worth the price
Competitiveness
Sister loved this book and said its one of her favs
It really makes you think more about the world and the human race
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You will feel like youve had an education when you finish this book
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Not quite as good as sapiens by the same author
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Para phrasing nietzsche what doesnt kill you makes you strongerthe traditional two types of world resources raw materials and energy need a third added and that is knowledgethe more we know the less we can predictfacebooks intrinsic knowledge of the political views of its users combined with the awareness of who in each community can successfully influence and turn votersweird western educated industrialised rich and democraticthe challenge is to create jobs where humans are better than algorithms otherwise we risk a huge group of people with nothing to offer societyandgovernments manage countries but they dont lead them
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Scary at the same time fascinating
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Harraris style makes every issue understandable and accessible
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Humans he argues are little more than organic algorithmgenerating machines and the only thing that distinguishes us from the rapidly increasing computing power that is taking over our lives is that we have consciousness as well as intelligence and they only have intelligence
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I am already halfway through and cannot wait to read the first book sapiens which for some reason i did not read first
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