Richard Fisher: Taking Back Time

  • Thu 15 Aug 19:45 - 20:45
  • EFI Venue NW
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  • EFI Venue NW
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Richard Fisher: Taking Back Time

The key to the future is our understanding of time, argues Richard Fisher in The Long View. The supercharged pace of modern life that keeps us hyper-fixated on the ‘now’ isn’t sustainable. Talking to Jo Sharp about medieval cathedrals that took lifetimes to build and philosophers who imagined futures thousands of years off, Fisher asks how, for the sake of future generations, we recapture the far-sightedness of our ancestors.

Categories: Future Focus, History, Nonfiction

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