{"product_id":"long-view-why-we-need-to-transform-how-the-world-sees-time","title":"Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A beautifully turned, calmly persuasive but urgent book' IAN MCEWAN\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'A landmark book that could help to build a much brighter future' DAVID ROBSON\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A wide-ranging and thought-provoking exploration of the importance of long-term thinking.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Humans are unique in our ability to understand time, able to comprehend the past and future like no other species. Yet modern-day technology and capitalism have supercharged our short-termist tendencies and trapped us in the present, at the mercy of reactive politics, quarterly business targets and 24-hour news cycles.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It wasn't always so. In medieval times, craftsmen worked on cathedrals that would be unfinished in their lifetime. Indigenous leaders fostered intergenerational reciprocity. And in the early twentieth century, writers dreamed of worlds thousands of years hence. Now, as we face long-term challenges on an unprecedented scale, how do we recapture that far-sighted vision?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Richard Fisher takes us from the boardrooms of Japan - home to some of the world's oldest businesses - to an Australian laboratory where an experiment started a century ago is still going strong. He examines the psychological biases that discourage the long view, and talks to the growing number of people from the worlds of philosophy, technology, science and the arts who are exploring smart ways to overcome them. How can we learn to widen our perception of time and honour our obligations to the lives of those not yet born?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Long View:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'A wise, humane book laced with curiosity and hope. It will open your mind and horizons - and leave you giddy at the prospect of all that we may yet become.' \u003cb\u003eTom Chatfield\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Think\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'Hope-filled and revelatory ... Beautifully readable and scholarly, rich and personal, this book shows how, to leave a robust legacy for the future, we need to overcome our bias for the present.' \u003cb\u003eRowan Hooper\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Spend a Trillion Dollars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'A soaring hymn to all that might lie in the future; alongside the diverse and beautiful ways to think about it. Overflowing with wisdom and insight.' \u003cb\u003eThomas Moynihan\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eX-Risk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e ' In a world of short-sightedness, \u003ci\u003eThe Long View\u003c\/i\u003e is a helpful guide to understand and connect us to the future. In the light of the climate emergency, long-term thinking is more urgent than ever.' \u003cb\u003eAndri Snær Magnason\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eOn Time and Water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e '\u003ci\u003eThe Long View\u003c\/i\u003e is a manifesto calling for a radical reconception of our relationship with time. Richard Fisher documents the social, psychological, and economic reasons we have become stranded on the Island of Now - and charts routes for us to get back to the mainland.' \u003cb\u003eMarcia Bjornerud\u003c\/b\u003e, the author of \u003ci\u003eTimefulness\u003c\/i\u003e...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43583179456709,"sku":"","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/The_20Long_20View_f6b8125f-b534-492a-8eef-43a1e68db144.jpg?v=1716626471","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/long-view-why-we-need-to-transform-how-the-world-sees-time","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}