What Happens When Meaning Goes Away

BOOK REVIEW

A.I., biotechnology, the loss of meaning, and the future of the world

Humanity has made tremendous strides in reining in plague, famine and war in recent decades.

As Yuval Harari writes,

The message at the beginning of Yuval Harari’s book Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow is similar to that of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now and Hans Rosling’s Factfulness — most observers are wrong about the state of the world, and we have, in fact, made truly unprecedented progress in recent decades.

But, while Pinker and Rosling focus on the people’s flawed perception of reality, Harari aims to answer a bigger and, indeed, more important question: “In a healthy, prosperous and harmonious world, what will demand our attention and ingenuity?”

In the past, prophets and thinkers believed that humanity’s scourges — such as disease, war and famine — were integral parts of God’s…

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