I think that as we accelerate further and further, we probably are not so used to thinking 50 years out, but we only need to go back a few hundred years to find people who were.Īs for why he chose to spend his money on science rather than a more traditional philanthropic cause, Milner said he believes that 95% of all nonprofits should be aiming to "equalize the equation" in terms of socioeconomic issues. And yet they were planning for it, and then they were slowly building it, and they were improving technology and so on and so forth. And when people starting building cathedrals, they knew that it would take 200 years to build. Marco Polo took 25 years to travel around the world as we knew it at that time. "But I think that a few hundred years ago, people did not really think about 50 years as being long-term." "Yes, it is about 50 years away," Milner said in an interview with Bloomberg TV's Erik Schatzker. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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