Human Progress


Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)
Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know: And Many Others You Will Find Interesting
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More
The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World
The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century
The Big Ratchet: How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis: A Biography of an Ingenious Species
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change
The Moral Arc: How Science Makes Us Better People
The Improving State of the World: Why We're Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Cleaner Planet
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet
Infinite Progress: How the Internet and Technology Will End Ignorance, Disease, Poverty, Hunger, and War
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Abhijit Naskar
Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call “Nationalist Fundamentalism”, which is as dangerous as “Religious Fundamentalism”.
Abhijit Naskar, I Am The Thread: My Mission

André Gorz
Socialism' should not be taken to mean merely subordinating the economy to the needs and values of society. It also involves the creation, as an effect of ever shorter and increasingly flexible working hours, of a growing sphere of sharing within the community, of voluntary and self-organized co-operation, of increasingly extensive self-determined activities. ...more
André Gorz, Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology

More quotes...