What Past Civilizations Can Teach Us About Time — Marcia Bjornerud at Long Now

In many earlier civilizations, the past, present and future co-existed—and interacted in ways much more nuanced than our simplistic, linear view of time.

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We need a poly-temporal worldview to embrace the overlapping rates of change that our world runs on, especially the huge, powerful changes that are mostly invisible to us.

Geologist Marcia Bjornerud teaches that kind of time literacy. With it, we become at home in the deep past and engaged with the deep future. We learn to “think like a planet.”

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