A Century Ahead. The Art of Long-Term Thinking, or How Humanity Forgot to Think About the Future

We live in an era of immediate needs and short-term thinking. Global corporations are ready to do anything to satisfy the growing demands of shareholders, natural resources are being depleted at an unprecedented rate, and politicians are discussing the use of nuclear weapons. What will be left for our descendants? Not just abstract future generations, but our grandchildren and great-grandchildren? Will we leave them a safe, comfortable world or a lifeless wasteland? In his book, philosopher and sociologist Roman Krznaric explains how to ensure that future generations can consider us good ancestors, establishing a personal empathetic connection with people we may never meet and whose lives we can hardly imagine. He offers six conceptual and practical ways to develop long-term thinking, which form the basis for creating a new, more conscious world order that paves the way for a culture of distant time horizons and responsibility for the future. And while it is unlikely that the reader will be able to influence the fate of all humanity, each of us can contribute to a good future for our descendants.