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 |  Subject: As It Was In The Days Of Noah—Scientist Says INHUMAN ‘Homo Deus’ Will Replace Mankind  Sun Jun 04, 2017 6:36 am | |
| As It Was In The Days Of Noah—Scientist Says INHUMAN ‘Homo Deus’ Will Replace MankindJune 4, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor  What happens when biotechnology and artificial intelligence merge, allowing us to re-design our species to meet our whims and desires? Historian Yuval Noah Harari explores these questions in his runaway bestseller, “Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow,” a kind of sequel to his 2014 book, “Sapiens.” The title of his new book suggests a startling stage in our evolution: Homo sapiens (“wise man”), far from being the pinnacle of creation, is a temporary creature, one soon to be replaced by INHUMAN Homo deus (“god man”). “It is very likely, within a century or two, Homo sapiens, as we have known it for thousands of years, will disappear,” Harari told an audience at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs recently. “Not because, like in some Hollywood science fiction movie, the robots will come and kill us, but rather because we will use technology to upgrade ourselves — or at least some of us — into something different; something which is far more different from us than we are different from Neanderthals.”(READ MORE) |
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