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In Yuval Noah Harari’s end-of-the-world scenario, intelligently designed technologies could lead to a new evolution of humanity and extreme social inequality. It is worth discussing whether this technology can be equitably distributed within a capitalist system.   Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens, has outlined three scenarios in which the human race may become extinct in the...

Drawing on Yuval Harari’s Sapiens, this course explores the possibility that advances in biotechnology could lead to the end of Homo sapiens and the social and ethical issues that arise, and discusses new forms of human evolution.   At some point in our lives, the question has crossed our minds: what will happen to humans and the world after an unimaginable amount of time has passed...

In the possibility of a society dominated by superhumans and A.I. as presented in the book Homodeus, humans will seek coexistence through a new form of resistance, the anti-datacratic movement, to defend their rights and selfhood. Based on historical examples, such resistance movements are inevitable, and the power of the human majority will push society toward a symbiotic relationship with...

This article challenges Yuval Noah Harari’s argument, questioning the notion of algorithms dominating humanity, and comparing the role of algorithms to human autonomy.   The author, Yuval Noah Harari, chose to write his book in a structure that starts in the future, returns to the past, and ends in the future again. He begins the book by presenting the problems of the new humanity that...

As Homo sapiens becomes increasingly mechanized through the development of cyborg engineering and artificial intelligence, will it spell the end of life as we know it? It may not be the end, but rather the beginning of the evolution of a new form of existence. Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens offers insight into how the convergence of technology and humans will change the future of humanity...