The Mind Meld of Bill Gates and Steven Pinker

Over lunch recently, Steven Pinker and Bill Gates discussed the surprising arcs of their careers, the work that lies ahead to ensure continued human progress and the challenge of creating the perfect toilet.

Mr. Gates has been saying Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature was the best book he had read in a decade. In his blog, Gates points out how Pinker uses meticulous research to argue that we are living in the most peaceful time in human history. Gates now asserts that his new book, Enlightenment Now, is even better.

Learn more in this New York Times article and Bill Gates’ Blog, gatesnotes.