Comments by "Brenda Rua" (@brendarua01) on "3 ways to plan for the (very) long term | Ari Wallach" video.

  1. This presentation was a joy and inspiring. We can only hope that politicians and business leaders take heart. But I don't see how they will when they only respond to the demands of stock holders and the body politic for the quick fix. Change has to come from the bottom up. For me the first step is to think about my kids. And yours. What kind of life do we want for them? Certainly not the fixation on their damn phones and social media. This talk abut "Futures" is very handy in coming after the Elon Musk interview. His response to a question - actually a critique - about addressing immediate needs was long path. He said two things of note to me but both bracketed the notion of futures, of paths. First he said he's acting as a multiplier in the short term. He's putting in place infrastructure that will leverage work of others, work that will happen anyway. Second he looked at long term paths that humanity must move down to survive in the long term, but that are far from guaranteed. Becoming a space faring species was an example. And he's acting to improve the chances of them happening. I think this is a prime example of what Ari Wallach is talking about.
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