Do Humankind’s Best Days Lie Ahead?

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‘It’s just a brute fact that we don’t throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We don’t 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 world’s most renowned thinkers take on one of the biggest debates of the modern era…

• Author: Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley, Alain de Botton, Malcolm Gladwell
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster
• Published: 2016-11-03
• Pages: 71
• ISBN-13: 9781786070777