4.Steven Pinker’s TED Conference Presentation
I admire Steven Pinker’s views on the world. He is the ultimate realist and pragmatist at the same time. He endorses civilisation and progresses it. He argues that our pessimism about today’s world is profoundly wrong: 2017 was one of the best ever years. However he also says “There’s a difference between progress and perfection. The fact that things are better now than they were in the past doesn’t mean they’re acceptable now” In his podcast interview on his TED…