Homo Deus

Interview with author on Intelligence Squared - [1]

TED - [2]

Book Notes

Summary - life is Getting much better as civilization approaches Kardashev Scale 1.

• "In 2010 famine and malnutrition combined killed about 1 million people, whereas obesity killed 3 million."
• "Whereas in ancient agricultural societies

human violence caused about 15 per cent of all deaths, during the twentieth century violence caused only 5 per cent of deaths, and in the early twenty-first century it is responsible for about 1 per cent of global mortality. In 2012 about 56 million people died throughout the world; 620,000 of them died due to human violence (war killed 120,000 people, and crime killed another 500,000). In contrast, 800,000 committed suicide, and 1.5 million died of diabetes. 23 Sugar is now more dangerous than gunpowder."

• . Whereas in 2010 obesity and related illnesses killed about 3 million

people, terrorists killed a total of 7,697 people across the globe, most of them in developing countries. 25 For the average American or European, Coca-Cola poses a far deadlier threat than al- Qaeda