Is the world getting better or worse? The answer is quite complex. But there are a lot of good things happening in the world that get overshadowed by the bad ones. Which makes us feel like there is no progress and everything is getting worse than it already was. Therefore, we decided to statistically prove to you how good things are improving
in the world, how bad things are reducing, and why you think everything is getting worse in this episode of the FutureIQ podcast.
Links mentioned in the episode:
Antifragile episode: https://youtu.be/75RulJrHFMc
Book - Factfulness: https://tapthe.link/FactfulnessBook
https://ourworldindata.org/much-better-awful-can-be-better : The world
is much better. But: The world is awful. The world can be much better.
https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen :
Hans Rosling TED Talk
https://ourworldindata.org/wrong-about-the-world: People are wrong about
how good/bad the world is
https://www.gapminder.org/factfulness-book/32-improvements/ : 32
improvements in the world shown in charts (16 bad things reducing and 16
good things increasing)
Hope you enjoyed FutureIQ by Navin Kabra and Shrikant Joshi. Do hit us
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00:00 Introduction
02:52 Things that have improved
10:06 Why do we think it's getting worse?
11:46 Good things getting better
15:38 The importance of good news