No, it was not better before! Luc Ferry joins Nicolas Bouzou, essayist and economist, to draw a portrait of our contemporary society and measure the progress made over the past two centuries. Innovation is a creative destruction that upsets established orders, and becomes a factor of fear and uncertainty, yet real and potential benefits must be recognized. While there are still many challenges to be faced in a world of growing complexity, it is all the more necessary to get out of the cycles of defeatist and reactionary apathy, mainly in the intellectual and media perspectives of today. And it is thus armed with confident lucidity that Luc Ferry and Nicolas Bouzou propose reasoned answers to our economic and social stakes to reclaim the future.