Factfulness sounds like a word that Stephen Colbert invented, a companion word to ‘truthiness’. It is actually the late Hans Rosling’s non-fiction bestseller that uses stats to prove how the world is much better than we often think it is. Rosling was a Swedish physician who spent a number of years working in remote and impoverished communities, so you might suppose him to have a grim outlook on society and our ‘progress’. This is not the case- he is ever-optimistic and he has the graph […]
Fact to the future
Factfulness by Hans Rosling