Do Humankind''s Best Days Lie Ahead?
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By (author): Alain de Botton Malcolm Gladwell Matt Ridley Steven Pinker
Its just a brute fact that we dont throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We dont execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to.
Steven Pinker
The idea that because things have gotten better in the past they will continue to do so in the future is a fallacy I would have thought confined to the lower reaches of Wall Street.
Malcolm Gladwell
In a world driven by technology and globalization, is humanity approaching a Golden Age or is the notion of progress a Western delusion? Four of the worlds most renowned thinkers take on one of the biggest debates of the modern era
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