New Technologies, Old Ideologies: Some Reflections from Yuval Noah Harari‘s Homo Deus

Abstract

Yuval Noah Harari‘s work, specifically Homo Deus, provides us with a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the technological future that awaits us, but it is not equally compelling when looking for alternatives. This insufficiency derives from the assumption of two unquestioned postulates, that is to say, ideological ones: on the one hand, scientism (albeit surreptitious), on the other, deconstruction. Hermeneutics, in its non-nihilistic version, seems to offer us a viable way to overcome both prejudices, and therefore, it is much more promising in relation to the task of figuring "alternate futures".