What will happen to society, politics and daily life when non-conscious but highly intelligent algorithms know us better than we know ourselves? So ends Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus, his most challenging book to date. In fact, it was so challenging that a few chapters in I had to put it down. It laid there beside my bed for a good few months until I decided to give it another go. Thinking about how science and technology might look like in the future isn’t really my cup of t