Friday 5 January 2018

Forever

Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (London, 2017), Chapter 6.

Harari suggests that "Modernity" (p. 233) promises:

"No paradise awaits us after death - but we can create paradise here on earth and live in it for ever, if we just manage to overcome some technical difficulties." (p. 235)

Harari exaggerates - or deliberately writes like an advertisement. Earth will not last forever. However, longer term, is there some hope for a technological "forever"? See Surviving The End Of The Universe.

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