Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?

‘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 g...