Michael Zhou: Homo Deus

To know our future, first, we need to know ourselves – our strengths, weaknesses, ambitions, failings.

A bewildering yet straightforward question is, “what do humans what to achieve?” Homo Deus, a New York Times bestseller may provide some answers to this question. From gaining happiness, immortality, and god-like powers, humans may be seemingly fastening their grips on Destiny and achieving the abilities to shape and define their futures. As the coronavirus pandemic exposes the paradox of the human genius – globalisation vs pandemic, this book provides a useful and provoking frame to understand the possibilities of human achievements – or failures – in the future.