We Need a Longer Historical Memory — Bina Venkataraman at Long Now

Описание: The Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami has been called a once-in-a-thousand-year event. That doesn’t mean it couldn’t have been anticipated and planned for. Bina Venkataraman shares the story of the engineer who did.

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What does practical long-term thinking look like? Bina Venkataraman’s new book, The Optimist's Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age, brings this abstract question to life. Through a series of anecdotes and case studies that draw from her background in public policy, climate change strategy, and journalism, Venkataraman explores pragmatic tactics that can help us think more clearly about our long-term future.

Bina Venkataraman is the editorial page editor of The Boston Globe. Before joining the Globe, she served as a senior adviser for climate change innovation in the Obama White House, was the director of Global Policy Initiatives at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and taught in the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at MIT.

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