Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead?

by Matt Ridley, Malcolm Gladwell, Alain De Botton et al.

2016 111 pages eng

Is humanity approaching a Golden Age, driven by technology and ever-closer global networks? Or is the notion of progress an illusion born in the West? From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief that through the evolution of institutions, innovations, and ideas, the human con…