Automation, New Morality and a Global Useless Class. Humans, Mr. Harari warned, have created such a complicated world that we’re no longer able to make sense of what is happening. Terrifying, if you’re to believe Yuval Noah Harari, the Israeli historian and author of “Sapiens” and “Homo Deus,” a pair of audacious books that offer a sweeping history of humankind and a forecast of what lies ahead: an age of algorithms and technology that could see us transformed into “super-humans” with godlike qualities.




