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Purpose and benefits

The long view makes the prospect of total collapse seem thinkable. Every now and then, civilisations decline steadily or come to relatively sudden ends. It’s normal. In the perspective of centuries, there is nothing special about it. The sense that ‘that’s something those poor fools in history did’ goes away, because you realise that, in their way, they were just as smart about what was going on as we are about our times. The fragility of things becomes interesting.

Another thing that emerges by taking the long view is Ray Kurzweil’s idea of the self-acceleration of technology and, thereby, of the pace of history.