Jonas Salk
Books by Jonas Salk
“Jonas Salk was the great immunologist who developed the first polio vaccine in 1955. But later, in the 1970s, he came to believe deeply that we humans need to expand our time horizons if we’re going to deal with the problems of our age. He said that the great question for our civilisation over the next century is this: are we being good ancestors?” Read more...
The Best Books for Long-Term Thinking
Roman Krznaric, Philosopher
Interviews where books by Jonas Salk were recommended
The Best Books for Long-Term Thinking, recommended by Roman Krznaric
We would all love our economic and political systems to be less short-termist in approach, but how do we set about encouraging a more long-term ethos? Cultural thinker Roman Krznaric, author of The Good Ancestor, recommends five books to get us thinking about the long term, up to ten millennia in the future.
