The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age
Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
H OW DO YOU get people to think ahead? In a time characterized by wide-ranging change, we need to think through the consequences of what we have wrought. We need to think ahead. It is reckless not to. We can’t predict the future, so it’s hard to think about the future. Our view is not surprisingly misguided. In 1920, British economist Arthur Cecil Pigou described our often skewed view of the future as our “ defective telescope.
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