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Do Humankind`s Best Days Lie Ahead?

Four of the world`s most renowned thinkers take on one of the biggest debates of the modern era. โ€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.โ€ – Steven Pinker โ€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.โ€ – Malcolm Gladwell

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