Homo Deus Author: [Israel] Yuval Noah Harari Publisher: CITIC Press Original title: Homo Deus

"A Brief History of the Future: From Homo Sapiens to Homo Gods" After entering the 21st century, plagues, famines and wars that once threatened human survival and development have been conquered, and Homo Sapiens are facing new issues to be addressed: immortality, happiness and becoming a "divine" human being. In the process of solving these new problems, the development of science and technology will overturn many of our "common sense" that we currently think does not need to be verified. For example, the free will advocated by humanism will face severe challenges, and machines will make smarter choices instead of humans.

More importantly, as science and technology represented by big data and artificial intelligence become increasingly mature, humans will face the biggest change since the evolution to Homo sapiens. The vast majority of people will become "worthless groups", and only a small number of people will be able to evolve into "gods" with changed characteristics.

In the future, humans 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 big data accumulation will know us better than we know ourselves. How we view these three major problems and how we respond will directly affect the future development of mankind.