Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?

Synopsis

‘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 gladwellin 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.