THE NON-OBVIOUS SHOW · EPISODE 37
with Richard Fisher
What will it take to transform the way the world views time? Richard Fisher, a senior journalist with BBC Global News, explores this question and shares ways to expand our minds into deeper time scales in his book The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time. In this episode, Rohit Bhargava and Richard Fisher discuss topics inspired by the book, including short termism in business and consumerism, the continuity time view, the impact of science fiction, and the encouragement of existential hope.
Science journalist, author of The Long View
Richard Fisher is a senior editor at Aeon magazine and author of The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time. He was previously an editor at BBC Future and writes about short-termism and long-term thinking.
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