After listening to A Brief History of the Future at first, I seem to agree with the author completely. Even if I think the author's point of view is a little uncomfortable, I can't think of anything to refute. Especially in reality, the whole society is full of artificial intelligence craze: Hawking, the world's top physicist, keeps proposing that robots will replace human beings in the future, and human beings must be vigilant and come up with necessary countermeasures. Elon musk, an American geek who created Tesla and spaceX recoverable rockets and achieved high-speed rail at 1000 km/h, also suggested that robots will replace humans in the future, and the probability of human winning will not exceed 10%. In addition, the self-learning robot defeated the chess robot that once defeated human beings in only three days, and human beings were shocked by the self-learning ability of the robot; Can the future of mankind really only be slaves of robots or destroyed by robots? After the creation of artificial intelligence, is the historical destiny of mankind completed? Is the mission of human beings to collect information and process it into data? Although these conclusions are uncomfortable, the author's inference is like this, and it seems that the evidence is conclusive and beyond doubt!

In recent decades, the development speed of human science and technology has far exceeded that of the past few thousand years, and it has gradually increased exponentially. The three major problems that have plagued mankind for many years, namely famine, plague and war, have also been gradually broken by modern science and technology and human civilization in recent decades. God's joys and sorrows are no longer the source of controlling natural disasters. Human scientific and technological civilization has been able to make fundamental explanations for many natural phenomena, and there are also countermeasures and preventive measures for many natural disasters. Once modern science and technology make breakthroughs in genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, Internet big data and so on. For example, genetic engineering transforms the human body to create superman, and artificial intelligence connects the brain and the computer. The chain reaction and technical iteration will be beyond our imagination. The next three new topics of mankind will be immortality, bliss and becoming a god, so this book defines a new religion for human history: Dataism, and points out the way of life in the future world-algorithm.

The author connects several major trends in human history, such as humanism, information revolution and globalization brought by agricultural revolution, industrial revolution and enlightenment, in the same historical framework and uses them to predict the future. Humanism is put forward to make creationism quit, because we know the world better than God now, and artificial intelligence will prove that they actually know the world better than us through big data. Intelligence will overcome consciousness, and some people will change from homo sapiens to homo sapiens. In the next period, mankind will rely on computer knowledge and biology to realize our dream of eternal life and happiness, and use scientific knowledge to make mankind a god of wisdom. Data will replace God as a new religion.

In the new period, the author puts forward the crisis facing mankind. One is that human beings will lose their value because of the development of technology. Will there be a privileged class composed of a few people and an ordinary class composed of all people in the human world? Will unconscious intelligence replace our consciousness? ...

From computer to internet to artificial intelligence, in just a few decades, human society has undergone subversive evolution, and all changes have quietly occurred in a state that can be observed by the naked eye but cannot be captured. Science and technology have changed human life, and what kind of future will science and technology bring? Herali wrote these ideas into A Brief History of the Future. Finally, our talented writer Herari wrote, "What is more terrible than those creators who are greedy, irresponsible and don't even know what they really want?" Although A Brief History of the Future tells about the future, it shows the greed and selfishness of human nature. The future has arrived, and a bright future needs the common protection of all mankind.

History can finally be summarized, but the future can only be predicted.

While embracing the future, we expect it to happen, but we should learn to enjoy the present and do everything better in front of us. When everything happens, we will not be more surprised than others. We are better prepared for it, which may be the purpose of the author's writing this book.