Preface

Prologue

1. A Better Today: The Unprecedented Present

2. The Collective Brain

3. The Manufacture of Virtue

4. The Feeding of the Nine Billion

5. The Triumph of Cities

6. Escaping Malthus’s Trap

7. The Release of Slaves

8. The Invention of Invention

9. Turning Points

10. The Two Great Pessimisms of Today

Conclusion

Wrap Up