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The Data of Long-Lived Institutions
Most of the institutions shaping the world today are incapable of imagining anything other than their everlasting existence. And so things carry on, no matter how toxic, how ridiculous, or how contrary to values that most people share.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
How do we manage civilization’s continuity?
This book proposes a hundred years as a minimum threshold for long-term thinking. This is the current length of a long human lifespan, taking us beyond the ego boundary of our own mortality so we begin to imagine futures that we can influence yet not participate in ourselves.16 It extends much further than the maximum five or ten-year outlook found
... See moreRoman Krznaric • The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World
the main challenge of our times: re-engineering human cultures to be inherently sustainable.
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
the 500-year business plan of the Scottish Charity’s Trees for Life