Speaking for the future | Jonathan Sumption, Sophie Howe, Hilary Greaves

[@TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas]

What are your thoughts on legislating in the interest of future generations? Let us know in the comments! Watch the full debate here: iai.tv/video/speaking-for-the-future?KZbin&+comment

[@ShonMardani]

Anything we do now which is Good for All, will be Good forever.

[@redbaron3555]

Sophie Howe is the poster-girl for modern politics: The least self-aware one in the panel with the most speaking time and a multitude of logical flaws. Jonathan Sumption explained correctly that we are horrible to predict the future and how wrong we constantly are when choosing a future path (i.e. Diesel cars) and Sophie answers that EV’s are anyway wrong because the future is public transport. Guess what Sophie, when the decision for Diesel was made we also “knew” that this would be the “right” technology. Thinking you know what the future will bring is the very hubris which creates these huge mistakes. The future might just as well be even more individual transport (i.e. small ev pods controlled by AI). Political hubris on its own might not be so problematic but paired with Sophies idea of politicians which are willing to sacrifice their careers to do unpopular things is nothing less but a proto-fascist idea of being smarter and better than ones peers and “on the right side of history”. The answer here also came from Jonathan Sumption: There is not a single despot in the world which did not think he is on the right side of history! We bred a whole generation of uneducated and un-aware politicians which make up for a lack of intellect and education with over-confidence and hubris.

[@dallinsprogis4363]

In the end, I say “No matter your faith can have its place in space” “Surviving the universe is a true goal” By Dallin Sprogis

[@dallinsprogis4363]

4:41 Oh yea, also want to say “today’s extreme is tomorrow’s mainstream” Think about it carefully! I can give the analogy that the solar system is like a hard disk drive in a computer system. The hard disk drive has a manufacturing life span in the term used as “Meantime before failure”. The solar system was to manufactured in the galaxy and has a meantime before failure too. So what can the science tell us or shows us how to act accordingly.

[@alex79suited]

Democracy = together.

[@dallinsprogis4363]

This is the right path. Yet need to think bigger as in the science tells us and state a better analogy like “the science tells us that solar systems come and go in a galaxy” and “surviving the universe is a true goal”.

[@dallinsprogis4363]

6:30 we can expect that the solar system will not last forever. And we should work towards “surviving the universe as a true goal” yet out biggest challenge is to at lest out live the existence of the solar system. The science tells us that solar systems come and go. We need to adapt to Astrophysical changes.

[@johndoolan9732]

See only thinking without a BOX involve both governments and people completely working together making affordable green options available

[@ReginaJune]

2:54 I view it as we are God of those future people. Without us, they will not exist and when they do exist, we’re going to set the conditions that they get to overcome. So, the best we can probably do is, reflect on our own experiences and knowledge and think what conditions can we change that would have made you a better version of yourself today?

[@dallinsprogis4363]

9:18 all conflicts trivial. If it is human policy to “survive the universe” then war or any kind of fighting is counterproductive. The point is to ensure that the tools that don’t exist will exist long after we have entered the history books for the future generations to develop the technology that helps us achieve the goal of surviving the universe and at lest first out live the existence of the solar system.

[@zunaidraoha8722]

Ok, now i know.. well, you too may know ...

[@Rnankn]

A society that is incapable of those three most basic tasks - cooperation, planning, sharing - is doomed to fail spectacularly.

[@malcolmwebb5201]

I think it fundamentally wrong and an extreme form of intellectual arrogance to presume we should or can make decisions on behalf of people who will be born 100 years hence.

[@danielmeixner7125]

If they had stopped burning coal and oil 100 years ago, many species wouldn't have gone extinct by now and maybe there would now be some hope of avoiding climate apocalypse.

[@eddyk2016]

I would like to see that blonde woman cycling 10 miles a day, there and back, to get to work. Like she doesn’t use a car to travel, yeah right!