Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Morning optimism
Troubling as the future may seem at the moment, look at how the world has progressed in the last two hundred years, notwithstanding catastrophic man-made and natural disaster. History gives us great reason for optimism, unless we let the enemies of progress -- not progressivism, but actual progress in the sense your grandparents meant it -- win.
4 Comments:
By 
rcw, at
Thu Dec 09, 08:12:00 AM:
That was an INCREDIBLE presentation. One of best uses of effective visual presentation of data I have ever seen, and really fun too!
Where do find this stuff?
By 
Akshat, at
Thu Dec 09, 06:52:00 PM:
Optimistic indeed. I'm generally a doom and gloom kinda guy, but after seeing this, I'm smiling. Thank you :)
By Assistant Village Idiot, at
Sat Dec 11, 08:19:00 AM:
rcw, there's an expanded version of the same thing over at TED.
By , at
Thu Dec 23, 01:15:00 AM:
Uh, I admits I is a Texas Hick, so wut iz TED?
