Homo Deus - Uma Breve Histгіria Do Amanhгј May 2026

Since we’ve mostly "conquered" famine, plague, and war, Harari suggests our new goals will be immortality, happiness, and divinity (turning ourselves into "gods" through bioengineering and AI).

It’s a fascinating (and sometimes chilling) read. Here are a few big ideas he tackles that usually get people talking: Homo Deus - Uma breve histГіria do amanhГЈ

He argues that for the first time in history, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little, and more people die from old age than from infectious diseases. Since we’ve mostly "conquered" famine, plague, and war,

It definitely makes you look at your smartphone and your doctor a little differently! It definitely makes you look at your smartphone

That's a heavy one! Yuval Noah Harari basically takes the "history of humanity" from his first book ( Sapiens ) and flips the lens toward the future.

This is probably the wildest part. He discusses a future where "Dataism" becomes the new religion—where we trust algorithms (like Google or Spotify) to know our feelings and make our choices better than we can ourselves.

He raises the scary possibility that AI might make millions of people economically and militarily "useless," creating a massive social divide.