Last yr Gates stated on Twitter that the one particular reward he’d give any school graduate was Steven Pinker’s The Superior Angels of our Character, a guide that argues violence has declined across the historical past of human civilization. This year’s graduation year the philanthropist and Microsoft cofounder has one more proposed browse: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Erroneous about the World—and Why Things Are Far better than You Feel, by the late Swedish academic Hans Rosling, penned with his son and daughter-in-law, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund.
“This is knowledge as you have in no way recognised it: it is facts as remedy,” Rosling writes in the ebook introduction. “It is knowledge as a source of psychological peace. Mainly because the planet is not as spectacular as it seems.”
Gates is so keen for grads to adopt Rosling’s actuality-based mostly worldview and to bask in the glory of human progress that he’s offering the reserve absent for no cost to all US grads. The obtain starts currently (June 5) at 8am US Pacific time, and will be accessible for a couple of times.
Any individual who graduated from an accredited US school or university in 2018 can go to Gates’ blog and (just after registering) download a free electronic duplicate of Factfulness. The data files arrives in EPUB structure, so Kindle customers will have to convert it to MOBI.
The screening process isn’t especially rigorous—just a drop-down menu of school names—but the next richest guy in the globe in all probability is not extremely concerned about fraudulent downloads of a e-book about fighting bias.
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