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Its just a brute fact that we dont throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We dont execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to. -Steven PinkerThe 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 GladwellIn 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 worlds most renowned thinkers take on one of the biggest debates of the modern era......