Silicon Valley has lost its way. In the past, the brightest minds worked with the government on groundbreaking technologies that moved the world forward. Thanks to them, the West gained superiority over its enemies and was able to ensure the safety of its citizens. Today, however, the relationship with technology has changed. Today's engineers and developers prefer to create marketing algorithms, social networks, and video-sharing platforms. The entire technology sector is obsessed with consumer culture, which wastes talent and capital on things that are trivial and fleeting. Moreover, this comfortable complacency has gradually spread to academia, politics, and corporate management.
A bold, provocative history of our species finds the roots of civilization's success and failure in our evolutionary biology. We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet people are more listless, divided and miserable than ever. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, and yet our political landscape grows ever more toxic, and rates of suicide, loneliness, and chronic illness continue to skyrocket. How do we explain the gap between these two truths? What's more, what can we do to close it?
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“The best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made.” —P.J. O’Rourke
Can words be a form of violence? Should freedom of speech be restricted to prevent harm to others?
A new edition of John Stuart Mill's classic 1859 treatise.
At the H21 Institute, we have published a handbook for all those interested in electoral methods who want to learn how the electoral system design affects the course of elections, the strategy of candidates and voters, and even the outcome itself. What things will change if we change the rules?
We study electoral systems, the development of the D21 – Janeček Method, and issues of democracy.
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