Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?
Download or Read eBook Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? PDF written by Steven Pinker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Steven Pinker |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2016-11-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781786070777 |
ISBN-13 | : 1786070774 |
Rating | : 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by : Steven Pinker
Book excerpt: ‘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…