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Can We Still Be Optimistic About the Future? | A Conversation with Steven Pinker

Can We Still Be Optimistic About the Future? | A Conversation with Steven Pinker

Update: 2025-07-18
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In this episode of The Poetry of Reality, Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker explore the frontiers of science, language, morality, artificial intelligence, evolution, and the future of human civilization.

Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author, and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.
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Can We Still Be Optimistic About the Future? | A Conversation with Steven Pinker

Can We Still Be Optimistic About the Future? | A Conversation with Steven Pinker

The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins | Members Exclusive