![]() ![]() It looks as if Harari is predicting an immortality project but withholding his approval. Hence even if we don’t achieve immortality in our lifetime, the war against death is still likely to be the flagship project of the coming century.” He acknowledges that immortality could have dark sides and discusses a few of them, but given our fear of death or our belief in the sanctity of life, he concludes that the war against death will have “irresistible momentum” and “seems to be inevitable.” Yet almost immediately he notes, “The scientists who cry immortality are like the boy who cried wolf: sooner or later, the wolf actually comes. ![]() He admits, for example, that he is skeptical that the project for immortality will succeed any time soon. The reader quickly sees, however, that for better and for worse, that is not Harari’s intention. It sounds like we are about to be exposed to standard futurist fare, with bold predictions of an eye-popping future. Towards the beginning of Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, Yuval Noah Harari discusses what he expects to be the three great projects for the human future: the quest for immortality, the quest to re-engineer human beings to be happy all the time, and the quest for god-like powers.
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