Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

Having charted humanity's rise in Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari turns from the past to the future. For most of history, humans struggled against famine, plague, and war; now, he argues, we have largely brought these ancient scourges under control and are setting ourselves new goals—immortality, bliss, and a god-like power to engineer life itself.

Homo Deus asks what happens to a species that has run out of things to conquer except its own nature. Drawing on history, biology, and the study of intelligence, Harari examines how liberalism, humanism, and free will may give way to new creeds built on data and algorithms, and how biotechnology and artificial intelligence could split humanity or render most of it economically and politically irrelevant.

Provocative and wide-ranging, this bestselling work of big-picture nonfiction is less a prediction than a set of urgent questions about where our newfound powers are taking us—and who will be left behind.