Month: July 2010
Sometimes the Triumphs of Human Beings Are Amazing
One of the great killers has been defeated: smallpox. The disease was responsible for the deaths of 300-500 million people in the 20th century. But now it has been defeated.
Pronoia Looks at the Big Picture
The process of cumulative innovation has doubled life span, cut child mortality by three-quarters, and multiplied per capita income nine-fold world-wide in little more than a century.
