People frequently ask me what they should read, make me a list they say and every time I put on the list Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, I think its very important that people understand our past and how we got here and Harari tells our human story with impressive clarity while keeping the reader engaged.  We can’t argue our past, it’s simply there, already in existence but what about our future?  I am more reluctant to tell people to read Harari’s second book, Homo Deus.  How can we reconcile the contents of a book called Human God?  Where are our limits when it comes to considering how much the human species can advance or will we die before we ever can see what we are truly capable of?

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The book ends with three questions, the one I think about the most is “Are organisms truly indistinguishable from algorithms?” Are human beings just complex algorithms?  We make our current and future decisions based off of our past experiences.  The more I learn about algorithms, the more I feel like I am one.  An entity that is constantly adjusting to what’s around me, what I’ve been rewarded for in the past, what makes me run more efficiently.  It’s a lot to think about, but that’s the point, nobody can read Homo Deus and not think about it.