Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari This is the type of book that leaves you a much better person for having read it. There are few books that come close to covering as much breadth or depth as Homo Deus while elegantly tying together a grand narrative that weaves together threads of history, ideology, religion, economics, politics, culture, biology, psychology, philosophy, mind, cognition, information & communications, technology, futurism, artificial intelligence, identity, free will, and meaning. It is the sort of book that should be re-read, and which will necessarily have a greater impact and impression on those who are already familiar with many of the topics that are discussed. I can guarantee that you’ve never seen all of these crucially important topics brought together in one cohesive framework like this before. One of the biggest benefits is that it will force you to question. Everything. With renewed insight. Harari’s intellectual honesty is admirable. While there is an easy to detect and clearly expressed bias on certain topics, he presents alternatives honestly and with the open mindedness to seriously consider their legitimacy in various domains. That’s another benefit; forcing the reader to leave their echo chamber and be open to considering ideas they might have never entertained. My attempt to summarise the thesis is: From an understanding of religion as anything that confers superhuman legitimacy on human social structures, tracing the evolution of religion and related intersubjective realities from monotheism to liberal humanism and the provision of meaning built into each, considering the competition between the sects of liberal humanism, and digging into the historical framework and societal development around each leading to the present time . . . we see that advanced developments in biotechnology, neuropsychology, computing, and communications technology threaten to undermine the fundamental structures built ...