For thousands of years of human history—let alone pre-history—there was never this sense, so common to us now, of a future likely to be radically different from the present. There was really a sense that humanity had already reached its peak, and so the question wasn’t what comes next that’s better, but rather how to prevent decline and loss.
Dan Edelstein — For thousands of years of human history—let alone pre-histor
For thousands of years of human history—let alone pre-history—there was never this sense, so common to us now, of a future likely to be radically different from the present. There was really a sense that humanity had already reached its…