FORA.tv - Niall Ferguson & Peter Schwartz on Human Progress

Human Progress Here is a most worthy and rather long 1hr41min debate. Distributed on fora.tv this talk from the Long Now Foundation.

If you can only see a key bit jump to time 1:29 for a lovely Q&A summary of history and violence.

It is a debate that ranges over history in consideration of the history of violence. It is respectful and entertaining debate between the perspectives history:future and pessimism:optimism. Peter Schwartz, an engineer futurist, and Niall Ferguson, an historian. Ferguson's makes much reference to his current book The War of the World - 20th Century Conflict and the Descent of the West.