After Humanism dies, Harari predicts that two new religions will compete to fill the power vacuum. He calls them “Techno-Humanism” and “Dataism.” Techno-Humanism is simply Harari’s term for traditional Transhumanism, so I’ll focus on the less-familiar Dataism.
It sounds like Harari is stretching for sensation. Transhumanism is just humanism with more and better toys. Dataism is just the old dream of central planning, but supposedly different this time, because AI.
It sounds like Harari is stretching for sensation. Transhumanism is just humanism with more and better toys. Dataism is just the old dream of central planning, but supposedly different this time, because AI.