Homo Deus

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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🗓️ 17 February 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor Yuval Harari and Azeem Azhar cover the compelling insights in his new book, "Homo Deus."

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0:00.0	There's no shortage of tech podcasts, but few give you a true dose of the future.
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0:09.0	It takes you straight to the innovators behind new materials, data centers, self-driving cars, even electric boats,
0:15.5	eavesdrop on the future with the A16Z podcast.
0:22.3	Welcome to the Exponential View podcast. My name is Azimazar and I'm the curator of Exponential
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0:45.0	Today I talk with Dr. Yewal Noah Harare.
0:48.0	Yewal is one of today's most important thinkers in his 2014 book, Sapiens, a magisterial history of humanity, he asks us to question
0:56.7	notions of human exceptionalism. His new book, Homodeus, asks what happens to us now.
1:02.0	Science has helped us conquer famine, plague and war,
1:05.0	enriched us and allow us to dominate the planet.
1:08.0	But new technologies based around artificial intelligence
1:11.0	and genetic engineering are resulting in a new dynamic,
1:14.4	a rapid progress that may herald the passing of Homo sapiens.
1:18.2	Algorithms may know us better than we know ourselves.
1:21.3	If that is the case, what will happen to society, politics and daily life?
1:26.1	I do recommend picking up a copy of Homodeus. It's available in the UK now and in the United States
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