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In politics the dominant time frame is a term of office, in fashion and culture it’s a season, for corporations it's a quarter, on the internet it's minutes, and on the financial markets mere milliseconds. “If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imagining the future” That's why researchers, artists, technologists and philosophers think that short-termism is the greatest threat we are facing this century. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190109-the-perils-of-short-termism-civilisations-greatest-threat