Humanity is stuck in short-term thinking. Here’s how we escape. | MIT Technology Review

Humanity is stuck in short-term thinking. Here’s how we escape. | MIT Technology Review: Every so often, I ask my daughter about the future. When she was three, she had only a basic concept of time, with little awareness of clocks or calendars. She could understand The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a classic children’s book about a creature gorging on food over a week, but when she would tell the…