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#793 Adam Bulley - The Invention of Tomorrow: A Natural History of Foresight

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The Importance of Foresight in Cultural Change

Cultural artifacts can have effects on our foresight. The invention of fire is an example, but there are other examples such as oral calendars and bags which enable people to offload the task of carrying devices into the future. There's now an actual incentive to prepare multiple mutually exclusive tools in advance To tackle the array of possible futures that lie ahead of you Before the bag, uh, there simply wasn't the benefit to be gained from Devising and creating multiple tools because you just couldn't carry them.

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