![]() In the New York Times Jennifer Senior found Harari to be “a gifted thinker and a precocious mind” (whose writing, she added, is nonetheless filled with “blithe pronouncement” of an extremely uninviting future). In a Time review Bill Gates found Homo Deus “a deeply engaging book,” although he questioned Harari’s bleak vision of the future. ![]() The 2017 sequel, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, also received generally positive if more qualified notices. Tom Payne in the Telegraph judged Sapiens “at once well informed and vatic.” Peter Forbes in the Independent found Sapiens “eloquent and humane,” “brave and bracing,” while also noting that the book was as much philosophical meditation as historical research. Among other critics, the judgment was more nuanced. His 2015 bestseller, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, was greeted with positive reviews by Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and other luminaries. Yuval Noah Harari is a brilliant historian teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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