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Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?

Published by Oneworld Publications
Distributed by Simon & Schuster

About The Book

‘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…

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  • Publisher: Oneworld Publications (November 3, 2016)
  • Length: 128 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781786070777

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