Critical Review of  Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Vahdati Nasab, Hamed; Abdollahi, Alieh

doi:10.30465/crtls.2020.29840.1754

Critical Review of Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Document Type : Research

Authors

Hamed Vahdati Nasab ¹

Alieh Abdollahi ²

¹ Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

² MA Student of Archaeology, Islamic Azad University of Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30465/crtls.2020.29840.1754

Abstract

The under review book of Homo Deus, A Brief History of Tomorrow, is the second part of the trilogy of Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century were all written by Yuval Noah Harari. In this book, the writer has first reviewed the history behind the formation of the human mindset from Paleolithic to the renaissance with particular emphasis on the scientific revolution and appearance of the humanism paradigm and its subdivisions (liberalism, socialism, and fascism). Doing so, he concluded that the invention of the internet of everything and using more sophisticated computer-generated algorithms by Google and Facebook (Dataism) would eventually put humans aside forever. The writers of this critique compared the Farsi translation with the English one and realized that some parts of the Farsi version suffer from improper translation, and some other parts have been deleted during the translation. In addition to that, it is probable that human societies might escape from the illustrated dark future by Harari. Learning from past events, and more importantly, using our global consciousness, which we possess more than ever, might change the inevitable future.

Keywords

Homo Sapiens

Mind Algorithms

Humanism

Dataism

Global Consciousness

Subjects

Anthropology

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