Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers | Steven Pinker

推荐理由

tl;dr: it's getting better. We're living longer, homicides are down, fewer wars and autocracies, etc..

推荐blippage · 原文2021年7月

说明

这是2018年由TED发布的一部演讲，主题归在Futurism & technology and society。它讲的是human progress这一支里的具体问题，而不是把整个领域扫一遍。适合按兴趣直接看、不打算先补课的人。内容上可以概括成：Steven Pinker's TED talk presents data on homicide, war, poverty and pollution to argue that the world has improved over the past decades. He frames progress as problem-solving, not inevitability.这些读者给出的理由，核心是：Cited as a data-backed counter to doom and pessimism about the state of the world.讲法不绑某一条新闻，过几年仍然可以当材料看。从2018年到2022年，有2位不同的读者在2个不同月份把它推荐出来，其中明确叫别人去看的有0次。适合一次性看完。讲者把一个判断讲透，演示是在给这个判断配例子。如果已经会了基本定义，就把注意力放在它怎么把human progress变成能跟着复述的例子。

视频信息

频道

TED

时长

18 分 33 秒

发布年份

2018

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