— Overview
The notes stay with a book that looks at a future after hunger, plague, and war, and they stop where the internet of things is already in the house.
— Contents and key concepts
A title of human and god, after hunger, plague, and war
Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus, the notes say, asks what a human is, and what path lies ahead. Homo is the word for a human, Deus the word for a god. The subtitle, as they write it, is a future history.
Sapiens, having conquered hunger, plague, and war, is shown pursuing immortality, happiness, and divinity. Humanism and liberalism are criticised; free will may not be as free as it seems, and may even be something that can be made. A computer, the book suggests, may one day make art as fine as a human’s.
Intersubjective reality, and a sentence about religion
Part 1 locates Sapiens’s power in the creation of an intersubjective reality: law, money, the state, ranks, and gods, shared though they have no solid form. The writer has not yet read Sapiens, and notes that part 1 is also called a summary of that book.
In part 2, religion is whatever gives a social structure a more-than-human justification. Capitalism and humanism are called religions of this world. The faith that only a capitalist economy can enrich people feels, to the writer, close to a religion, a god aside.
A data religion, already in the house
Part 3 points to an error in free will, and says a data religion will come. The writer thinks such a faith is not wholly absent now.
We live with an internet of things, a smartphone one can speak to, and a refrigerator already on the network. The notes stop there. The same Korean report, at fuller length, is on CampusDown.
Sources
- The notes, a student reading of Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus: a future history after hunger, plague, and war; intersubjective reality in part 1; religion as more-than-human justification; and a data religion named as the internet of things is already in the house.
Last updated: 15 November 2026
Frequently asked questions
How do the notes read the title, and what future does the book sketch?
Homo, the notes say, is the word for a human, and Deus the word for a god. The subtitle, as they write it, is a future history. Sapiens, having conquered hunger, plague, and war, is shown pursuing immortality, happiness, and divinity. The book also criticizes the thought of the present, humanism and liberalism, and offers research that asks whether free will is truly free, and whether it can be adjusted — even made.
What does part 1 say made Sapiens the master of things?
The power, in a phrase the notes quote, to create an intersubjective reality beyond objective and subjective reality: law, money, the state, a system of ranks, and gods — values that have no solid form, yet are shared. The writer finds this more precise than the old claim that high intelligence, or walking on two feet, was enough. They have not yet read Sapiens, and they record that some say part 1 is a summary of that earlier book.
How do they read religion, and where do the notes stop?
In part 2 they hold to a sentence that religion is whatever gives a human social structure a more-than-human justification. Capitalism and humanism are called religions of this world; modified capitalism and neoliberalism, they write, rule the market under new names, and the faith that only a capitalist economy can make people rich is close to a religion, the absence of a god aside. In part 3 the book points to an error in free will, and says a “data religion” will come. The writer thinks such a faith is not wholly absent now, in a society of an internet of things, a smartphone one can speak to, and a refrigerator already online. The notes stop there.
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