For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune-and remarkable power-to whoever can unlock them.įor years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday’s riddles are based in the pop culture he loved-that of the late twentieth century. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.Īnd like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.
And, above all, he asks the fundamental questions: Where do we go from here? And how will we protect this fragile world from our own destructive powers? He explores how Homo Sapiens conquered the world, our creation of today’s human-centred environment, our current predicament and our possible future. In this vivid, challenging new book from the author of Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari examines the implications of our newly upgraded condition, from our dogged pursuit of status and happiness to our constant quest to overcome death by pushing the boundaries of science. We are the only species in history that has single-handedly changed the entire planet, and we can no longer blame a higher being for our fate.īut as our gods take a back seat, and Homo Sapiens becomes Homo Deus, what are we going to do with ourselves? How do we set the agenda for our own future without pushing our species – and the rest of the world – beyond its limits? The great epidemics of the past – famine, plague and war – no longer control our lives. Humans today enjoy unprecedented levels of power and an increasingly god-like status.
Quote: Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah HarariĮnglish | 2016 | Non-Fiction, Science | 3.6 MB
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