What Am I Reading?

I am currently reading "A Short History of Progress," by Ronald Wright.

His publisher, Anansi Press explains what the book is about thusly:

In A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of triumph and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age can we recognize the experiment's inherent dangers, and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome.

Love the book so far. Ronald Wright writes clearly and eloquently about subject matters and sources of which I don't have the slightest clue. Nevertheless, Philistines like me, can still follow the main strand of his thesis and wonder why I didn't come up with that thought myself.