Knowing my love of reading, just give me the generous Aloysius a book entitled "The sound optimistic," the prolific Matt Ridley. A few years ago I meet this exceptional communicator thanks to another of his works, "Genome."
Good old Ridley, PhD at Oxford and media partner as prestigious as "The Economist" has written an essay dealing with arguments founded down to the classic maxim of asserting that any past was better.
Perhaps misled by the wave of economic and social pessimism that seems to continue flooding our lives, I noticed a few lines of the book in which the author claims that our fellow contemporaries, broadly live much better than their ancestors.
In one of his opening paragraphs we read that the availability of products to buy in New York or London is ten thousand million, a dizzying figure that just a century ago would be unthinkable. What will happen then in 100 years?
But despite increasingly have better ultrasounds, vitamins, ambulances, vaccinations, surgeries, pain, hospitals, insulin, water treatment, antibiotics ... hundreds of millions of human beings not able to pass the longevity their parents or grandparents. We are in awe of the magnitude of a collective misfortune, as recently occurred in Japan or Haiti in the past very close, but lacks many everyday people are the price to pay for the constant evolution of the human species on this planet.
For Ridley, Darwinian natural selection is not restricted to the purely genetic, but rather concerns ideas. A final paradox, because although the ideas reside in the brain, the brain of a man or a modern woman does not differ much in size and composition of our ancestors with the Neanderthals. Yes it does, in my humble opinion, in its structure, the number of neural interconnections stimulated without truce by the world around us. The phone is an invention that has lived with us for several decades. However, its mere existence facilitated the invention and development of Internet, an information highway through which every day we come into contact with millions of records with lots of ideas and opinions that make up a collective and cumulative human intelligence.
To progress further, our mission is to ensure that future generations can enjoy the wonders we have today and that will certainly come in the future. May we be optimistic, but rational.
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