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The Good Ancestor
I think technologies are hysterical about how China's going to beat us and then not hysterical enough about the threats. I think we need to have a much more reasoned debate about that. This would be a really good opportunity for us to actually have a conversation with China. It's like we've become such a short-term society. Part of that is just the technology itself. But I'm reading this great book by a classmate of mine from Oxford called The Good Ancestor. Essentially, the argument is we need to look at what is going to be inherited by seven generations from now. Stop thinking about the next week, the next quarter, the next election. We need to do it or else