Welcome to the New World Civilization
Even as specific states or regions rise and fade in prominence, their inhabitants continue to enjoy the benefits of their civilization's cumulative experience and knowledge.
Even as specific states or regions rise and fade in prominence, their inhabitants continue to enjoy the benefits of their civilization's cumulative experience and knowledge.
Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know documents progress and explains why it happens.
Pestilence, war, famine, and death are all on the decline.
Thanks to the ultimate resource: the human mind
Mark the 49th anniversary of Earth Day by celebrating human ingenuity.
New Simon Abundance Index elegantly refutes primitive zero-sum intuitions with respect to population and resource availability trends.
Bob Dole's magical pill changed the way Americans think about sickness and treatment.
Half a century after The Population Bomb, Ehrlich still thinks global catastrophe is just around the corner.
Nigeria will have a higher population than the U.S. by mid-century, when one in four people on Earth will live in Africa.
Over the last decade, GDP per person and life expectancy are up around the world while infant mortality and undernourished rates are down.
The public thinks so, and with freer countries having higher incomes, longer lifespans and lower rates of infant mortality, why wouldn't they?
Take Hans Rosling's Test Your World Knowledge quiz and find out