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12 | The Long Now — Peter Schwartz

12 | The Long Now — Peter Schwartz

FromMULTIVERSES


12 | The Long Now — Peter Schwartz

FromMULTIVERSES

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Length:
88 minutes
Released:
Aug 10, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

For hundreds of years, things changed slowly. Innovations were infrequent and spread inchmeal. Population, culture, and the atmosphere, all were static decade-to-decade.  We now see rapid change.It's hard to contemplate what now? let alone what next?Peter Schwartz is a futurist, SVP for Scenario Planning at Salesforce, author of The Art of Long View, and a founder of the Long Now Foundation. He thinks about the future, both envisioning its many possibilities and harnessing these scenarios to answer the question: what do we do now?In this conversation, we discuss the Long Clock, working with Steven Spielberg, what the future may hold (the ISS becoming a hotel?) what it almost certainly will (accelerating climate change is something we cannot avoid, we must adapt as well as driving down emissions) and how we should approach thinking about it. multiverses.xyz/podcast — the show home The Art of the Long View — Peter's book on scenario planning The Long Now Foundation homepage — with talks by Peter, Niall Ferguson (sometimes in debate!) Sam Harris, Kim Stanley Robinson and many others
Released:
Aug 10, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (36)

Coffee table conversations with leading thinkers and makers.  Multiverses explores the limits of knowledge and technology.Does quantum mechanics tell us that our world is one of many?  Will AI make us intellectually lazy, or expand our cognitive range? Is time a thing in itself or a measure of change? Which technologies should play a role in solving the climate crisis? What does phylogenetics research tell us about medieval manuscripts?  How can you write a poem that outlasts the human race?The host is James Robinson, variegated, bipedal, and occasionally monomanic.mutliverses.xyz