num_pages: 336
description: From the first seeds sown thousands of years ago to the construction of the cities we still inhabit to the scientific discoveries that have ensured our survival we are the inheritors of countless gifts from the past. Today in an age driven by the tyranny of the now with 24/7 news the latest tweet and the buy-now button commanding our attention we rarely stop to consider how our actions will affect future generations. With such frenetic short-termism at the root of contemporary crises the call for long-term thinking grows every day  but what is it has it ever worked and can we even do it?In The Good Ancestor leading public philosopher Roman Krznaric argues that there is still hope. From the pyramids to the NHS humankind has always had the innate ability to plan for posterity and take action that will resonate for decades centuries even millennia to come. If we want to become good ancestors now is the time to recover and enrich this imaginative skill.The Good Ancestor reveals six profound ways in which we can all learn to think long-term exploring how we can reawaken oft-neglected but uniquely human talents like cathedral thinking that expand our time horizons and sharpen our foresight. Drawing on radical solutions from around the world Krznaric celebrates the innovators who are reinventing democracy culture and economics so that we all have the chance to become good ancestors and create a better tomorrow.
language: English
title: The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
publisher: The Experiment