Ours For The Making

Videos about the ideas and innovations shaping the future, interviews + explainers👇

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Bach's Well-tempered clavier - from the British Library Collections!

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“What did you do to save our planet and our future when you had the chance?” asks @antonioguterres's yet to be born granddaughter's granddaughter. https://t.co/US0lqyWdor.

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What the long view reveals about burning coal… 👇

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If you burn a lump of coal, the greenhouse effect from the carbon dioxide released from burning that coal will, over its lifetime in the atmosphere, heat the Earth about 100,000 times more than the thermal energy released from burning that coal.

https://t.co/YyqbNXyew9

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Latest video explores #longtermism 👇

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One of the most controversial areas of *long term thinking* is a set of ideas known as Longtermism.

🧐It’s a curious set of ideas.

It’s attracted a lot of attention and wealthy backers, criticism and controversy.

But what is it? And what makes it different? 👇

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‘stirrings of the heart’ shape your experience of time ⁦@aeonmag⁩ https://t.co/lXhFuPjSDL

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To better understand this branch of long-term thinking, I spoke to @rifish who is a senior BBC journalist and author of the book, The Long View. You can watch what he has to say on the topic here: https://t.co/3nyPyHQVq1

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One of the most controversial areas of *long term thinking* is a set of ideas known as Longtermism.

🧐It’s a curious set of ideas.

It’s attracted a lot of attention and wealthy backers, criticism and controversy.

But what is it? And what makes it different? 👇

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A longtermist might even say it’s a *moral priority* of our time to improve the lives of these future possible people, even if that means our actions today cause harm to people alive in the here and now...

[Richard Fisher @rifish]

Great to see The Long View appear in Wired Japan!

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In case you're curious about which interview @thegallerycomp is referring to, it is one with @DrStruthers (about time, its history, our perception of it and where time might go next 👀...)

👉You can watch it here: https://t.co/rP19yuO6cP

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‘You’ve got to be bad at something to get good at it’

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"It's a process and it takes time."

Artisan watchmaker @DrStruthers shares some gentle wisdom about her creative process👇
https://t.co/NG0jsAfotr

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"It's a process and it takes time."

Artisan watchmaker @DrStruthers shares some gentle wisdom about her creative process👇
https://t.co/NG0jsAfotr

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In case you're curious about which interview @thegallerycomp is referring to, it is one with @DrStruthers (about time, its history, our perception of it and where time might go next 👀...)

👉You can watch it here: https://t.co/rP19yuO6cP

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“We can measure sections of our lives by these watches, and sometimes find ourselves noticeably older when we are finished with them.” @DrStruthers on watchmaking. https://t.co/Yxtm5vkjBS

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@thegallerycomp @DrStruthers @thegallerycomp You are so very welcome 😊

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🎧Recommended listen🎧

Really enjoyed this episode of @thegallerycomp on the role of distraction in creativity and explorations and perceptions of time (featuring @DrStruthers' book #HandsOfTime) 👇

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What watches mean to a watchmaker ⌚️⏳🎬

(featuring watchmaker, historian and author @DrStruthers)

https://t.co/PBb0zjN6bQ