The New York Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari, known for his internationally acclaimed book "Sapiens," returns with an equally original, captivating, and provocative work that focuses on the future of humanity and our quest to make humans into gods. In the past century, humanity has managed to achieve the impossible by curbing hunger, plagues, and wars. This may be hard to accept, but as Harari explains in his characteristic style—thorough yet engaging—hunger, plagues, and wars have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time, more people die from overeating than from undernourishment; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists, and criminals combined.