Forget Your Five-Year Plan: What If We Visualized Humanity's Future in Centuries, Millennia, and Beyond?
Unfortunately, it’s precisely our short-term thinking that could mean life is far worse for future generations than it might otherwise be. How can we combat this deeply embedded short-termism and get people to think about centuries, millennia, and beyond? (File photo: Marco Xu/Unsplash) “Where do you see yourself in five years?” It’s a classic job interview question, designed to probe your level of ambition and aspiration. And it probes about as far ahead as many of us are likely to think: with so many distractions in the here and now, so many crises and challenges and opportunities t...
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