Homo Deus

Computer algorithms have recently proven their worth in ball games,

Twenty-first-century medicine is increasingly aiming to upgrade the healthy. Healing the sick was an egalitarian project,

New Zealand became the first country in the world to legally recognise animals as sentient beings,

Rather, the baboon’s entire body is the calculator. What we call sensations and emotions are in fact algorithms. The baboon feels hunger, he feels fear and trembling at the sight of the lion, and he feels his mouth watering at the sight of the bananas.

The same logic dominates current debates on homosexuality. If two adult men enjoy having sex with one another, and they don’t harm anyone while doing so, why should it be wrong,

In 2014 more than 2.1 billion people were overweight, compared to 850 million who suffered from malnutrition.

The boy was asked what he would like to do when he grew up. The boy answered that he wanted to be a draughtsman. This answer was provided by the left hemisphere, which plays a crucial part in logical reasoning as well as in speech.

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In April 1694 a French official

The algorithm listens to your request, analyses the words you have chosen and your tone of voice, and deduces not only your present emotional state but also your personality type