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For most of recorded history humanity treated famine, plague, and war as the three great enemies that defined the human condition — beyond ordinary human control, ultimately the responsibility of gods or fate.","datePublished":"2025-12-22T20:41:27Z","dateModified":"2025-12-22T20:41:27Z"},{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/chapter-2-the-anthropocene/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/chapter-2-the-anthropocene/","name":"The Anthropocene","position":2,"wordCount":422,"timeRequired":"PT1.5M","abstract":"The second chapter zooms out to the species' impact on the planet. Geologists have started using the term Anthropocene to describe a new geological epoch defined by human action — a period in which a single species, ours, has become the most significant force shaping Earth's biosphere.","datePublished":"2025-12-22T20:41:27Z","dateModified":"2025-12-22T20:41:27Z"},{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/chapter-3-the-human-spark/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/chapter-3-the-human-spark/","name":"The Human Spark","position":3,"wordCount":453,"timeRequired":"PT2M","abstract":"The third chapter asks the question implicit in chapter 2: if Sapiens has become the dominant species, what gives Sapiens that capacity? Harari rejects three popular answers in turn. 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Harari traces how Sapiens has cycled through three great storytelling regimes: the animist worldview of foragers (every rock and tree has a spirit, humans are one species among equals), the theistic worldview of agriculturalists (gods rule…","datePublished":"2025-12-22T20:41:27Z","dateModified":"2025-12-22T20:41:27Z"},{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/chapter-5-the-odd-couple/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/chapter-5-the-odd-couple/","name":"The Odd Couple","position":5,"wordCount":423,"timeRequired":"PT1.5M","abstract":"Chapter 5 examines the relationship between religion and science, which Harari argues has been misunderstood by partisans on both sides. The popular framing treats them as opposing forces — science the engine of progress, religion the residue of superstition.","datePublished":"2025-12-22T20:41:27Z","dateModified":"2025-12-22T20:41:27Z"},{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/chapter-6-the-modern-covenant/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/chapter-6-the-modern-covenant/","name":"The Modern Covenant","position":6,"wordCount":429,"timeRequired":"PT1.5M","abstract":"Chapter 6 explicitly describes the trade modernity made. Pre-modern societies, Harari argues, told their members: accept your place in the cosmic order, fulfill the duties of your station, and in exchange you get meaning. 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The work of Michael Gazzaniga on split-brain patients in the 1960s…","datePublished":"2025-12-22T20:41:27Z","dateModified":"2025-12-22T20:41:27Z"},{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/chapter-9-the-great-decoupling/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/chapter-9-the-great-decoupling/","name":"The Great Decoupling","position":9,"wordCount":428,"timeRequired":"PT1.5M","abstract":"Chapter 9 introduces the concept the second half of the book hinges on. Until recently, intelligence and consciousness were tangled together in every animal that displayed them — the same brain that figured things out also experienced things, and both capacities had developed together over evolutionary time.","datePublished":"2025-12-22T20:41:27Z","dateModified":"2025-12-22T20:41:27Z"},{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/chapter-10-the-ocean-of-consciousness/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/chapter-10-the-ocean-of-consciousness/","name":"The Ocean of Consciousness","position":10,"wordCount":404,"timeRequired":"PT1.5M","abstract":"Chapter 10 examines what Harari calls techno-humanism — the response to the decoupling that says \"fine, we will upgrade humans so they remain useful.\" Techno-humanism accepts the decoupling premise but argues that biotech and brain-computer interfaces can keep humans economically and cognitively relevant by enhancing…","datePublished":"2025-12-22T20:41:28Z","dateModified":"2025-12-22T20:41:28Z"},{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/chapter-11-the-data-religion/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/chapter-11-the-data-religion/","name":"The Data Religion","position":11,"wordCount":491,"timeRequired":"PT2M","abstract":"The final chapter introduces what Harari calls Dataism, the worldview he sees emerging as the natural successor to humanism. The core claim of Dataism is that the universe is fundamentally constituted of data flows, that every phenomenon — physical, biological, social — is essentially the…","datePublished":"2025-12-22T20:41:28Z","dateModified":"2025-12-22T20:41:28Z"},{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/notes-homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/notes-homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/","name":"Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow","wordCount":132,"timeRequired":"PT1M","abstract":"The notes section is a second, quieter book running beneath the first: a trail of sources, clarifications, and technical details that support the main narrative without interrupting it. It also reveals a stylistic choice. Big claims are delivered with a storyteller’s rhythm, but they lean…","datePublished":"2025-12-22T20:41:28Z","dateModified":"2025-12-22T20:41:28Z"},{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/index-homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/index-homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/","name":"Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow","wordCount":138,"timeRequired":"PT1M","abstract":"An index looks humble, but it reveals the book’s real terrain. It lists the recurring objects of obsession: death, happiness, consciousness, humanism, algorithms, religion, animals, nations, markets, and the many names of modern power. It also changes how you read.","datePublished":"2025-12-22T20:41:28Z","dateModified":"2025-12-22T20:41:28Z"},{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/acknowledgments-homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/acknowledgments-homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/","name":"Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow","wordCount":126,"timeRequired":"PT1M","abstract":"Acknowledgements remind you that “a single author” is usually a convenient fiction. Behind the voice sits a network: editors who cut and sharpen, researchers who chase facts, colleagues who argue, friends who notice blind spots.","datePublished":"2025-12-22T20:41:28Z","dateModified":"2025-12-22T20:41:28Z"},{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/dedication/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/dedication/","name":"DEDICATION","wordCount":118,"timeRequired":"PT1M","abstract":"A brief dedication sets a quiet baseline: the future is not only a technical question, but a human one. The book is offered in gratitude to a teacher of inner attention. That matters because the argument keeps returning to a simple tension: we may gain…","datePublished":"2025-12-22T20:41:27Z","dateModified":"2025-12-22T20:41:27Z"},{"@type":"Chapter","@id":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/image-credits/","url":"https://readstacks.com/books/homo-deus-a-brief-history-of-tomorrow/image-credits/","name":"IMAGE CREDITS","wordCount":129,"timeRequired":"PT1M","abstract":"The illustrations in this book are not decoration; they are part of the argument. Images compress complex systems into something the eye can hold at once: a chart, a diagram, a historical artifact, a visual metaphor.","datePublished":"2025-12-22T20:41:28Z","dateModified":"2025-12-22T20:41:28Z"}]}