This week’s Big Question:
If advances in science and health care enable humans to live 150 years, will civilization improve? No, says Harvard history professor Niall Ferguson. Human nature will not change. Dark forces will still reign. Or will they? Futurist Peter Schwartz says intergenerational learning is taking place. Ninety-year-old grandmothers are teaching their grandchildren about history. They are passing on their wisdom, making society a richer, more humane place.
Niall Ferguson and Peter Schwartz on Living Longer (via The Long Now Foundation)
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