A Brief History of the Future: From Homo sapiens to Homo sapiens God

Revealing a possible picture of humanity's future and insights into how technological and biological advances are reshaping our existence and destiny, it is worth reading to gain insight into the changes and challenges of the world to come.

author
[Israel] Yuval Hurari
publishers
CITIC Press
original author's name
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Issue date
2017-2
translator (of writing)
LAM CHUN HUNG
未来简史:从智人到智神

After entering the 21st century, plagues, famines and wars, which have long threatened human survival and development, have been overcome, and Homo sapiens is faced with new pending issues: immortality, happiness and becoming a "divine" human being. In the process of solving these new problems, the development of science and technology will subvert a lot of "common sense" that we now believe does not need to be supported, for example, the free will advocated by humanism will face a serious challenge, and the machine will replace human beings to make wiser choices.

More importantly, when the development of science and technology represented by big data and artificial intelligence becomes more and more mature, human beings will face the biggest change since the evolution of homo sapiens, and the vast majority of people will be reduced to a "worthless group", and only a small number of people will be able to evolve into a trait change of the "god man! Only a small number of people will evolve into "divine beings" with changed traits.

In the future, human beings will face three major problems: biology itself is an algorithm, and life is a process of constantly processing data; the separation of consciousness and intelligence; and the external environment with the accumulation of big data will know more about us than we do ourselves. How we look at these three major problems and how we respond to them will have a direct impact on the future development of mankind.

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