In his 2004 CBC Massey Lectures, A Short History of Progress, the acclaimed anthropologist and novelist Ronald Wright argues that only by understanding humanity's patterns of triumph and disaster since the Stone Age, can we recognize the threats to our own civilization. With luck and wisdom, he suggests, we can help shape the future.
Lecture 1: Gauguin's Questions
Lecture 2: The Great Experiment
Lecture 3: Fools' Paradise
Lecture 4: Pyramid Schemes
Lecture 5: The Rebellion of the Tools
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