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HOMO DEUS. КРАТКАЯ ИСТОРИЯ БУДУЩЕГО

Bibliographic Description

Homo Deus. Краткая история будущего / Харари Ю.Н. – М. : Синдбад, 2019. – ISBN 978-5-906837-92-9.

Author
Харари Ю.Н.
Publisher
Синдбад
Year of publication
2019
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
Russian
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Access
Available to all

Description

In his first book, which became a worldwide sensation, “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” Yuval Harari told how Homo Sapiens came to dominate our planet. “Homo Deus” is a kind of continuation of that theme — an attempt to glimpse the future. What will happen when Google and Facebook know our tastes, personal preferences and political leanings better than we ourselves do? What will billions of people do once they have been displaced from the labour market by computers and have formed a new, useless class? How will religions respond to genetic engineering? What will be the consequences of the transfer of powers and competences from living people to networked algorithms? What must humanity do to protect the planet from its own destructive power?.. The most important thing now, Harari believes, is to recognize that we stand at a crossroads, and to understand where the paths stretching out before us lead. We are powerless to stop the course of history, but we can choose the direction in which we move.

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