Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

The cost of upgrading the human condition will be expensive and reserved for the super-rich. The others will see jobs disappear as they are replaced by ever more efficient technology.

Human experiences like sensations, emotions, thoughts, and human values – will be eroded by advances in science and technology. We will challenge human superiority and human exceptionalism including erroneous beliefs in the uniqueness of human feelings, human sapience (reason), and free-will.

In their pursuit of immortality and happiness, humans will turn to technology to upgrade themselves through genetic engineering , bionic engineering, and AI engineering.

There will be AI technology that is smarter and more intelligent than humans. Non-conscious but highly intelligent algorithms will know us better than we know ourselves, and we will increasingly rely on AI algorithms to inform and guide us in life, love, and work.

We will replace a homo-centric world view in favor of a data-centric world view.

Dataism puts together the same mathematical laws that apply to both biochemical and electronic algorithms. Dataism thereby collapses the barrier between animals and machines and expects electronic algorithms to eventually decipher and outperform biochemical algorithms.

If humankind is indeed a single data-processing system, what is its output? Dataists would say that its output will be the creation of a new and even more efficient data-processing system, called the Internet-of-All-Things. Once this mission is accomplished, Homo sapiens will vanish.

The next step in evolution will ultimately see humans transform into pure information and in doing so break free from their carbon-based biological chains.