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Perhaps our descendants won't care about our monuments. Maybe they'll be too busy thriving in their fusion-powered arcologies to wonder why we spent centuries stacking stones. But I suspect they'll care deeply about whether we had the audacity to imagine their existence at all - whether we could look past our quarterly reports and campaign cycles and dare to create a future for humanity itself.

Perhaps our descendants won't care about our monuments. Maybe they'll be too busy thriving in their fusion-powered arcologies to wonder why we spent centuries stacking stones. But I suspect they'll care deeply about whether we had the audacity to imagine their existence at all - whether we could look past our quarterly reports and campaign cycles and dare to create a future for humanity itself.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-ego-legacy-complex-on-ancient-monuments-and-modern-malaise/

I write about tech + humans + philosophy. Farcaster OG. FID 3305 founder of /theindex 

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/

this is excellent.  we should be building 7 more wonders of the world with all the resources and technology we now have