If you’ve read Sapiens or Homo Deus, or listen to the author speak, you’ll know Harari makes the statement that new religions are emerging from Silicon Valley.

They are promising a technological utopia where all our current problems will go away thanks to the advances they are making. Moonshot items are on the agenda as well including the merging of machine and human (Ray Kurzweil’s “Singularity”) and the extension of human life, which could lead to human immortality.

All we have to do is put our faith into these companies as they compete with each other over patents, brainpower and followers.

It sounds a little too familiar.

While (I hope) they won’t go into full scale war to claim superiority, they’re already competing in the modern equivalent through corporate espionage. However, when you peel back the layers, the battlefield is still economics: of funds, land and power.

Again, it all sounds a little too familiar.

We think we’re beyond repeating the major mistakes of history. Then we put a veil over-top of familiar items and claim them to be something new.

I predict our descendants generations from now will look back and laugh at us for our hope in such promises.

While I’d love to spend several lifetimes marveling at the beauty of the universe, I’d rather be happy with what I have rather than miserable over something that may never come to be.