DO YOU care whether humanity survives to the year 3000? I hadn’t given it a
thought until I was invited to an extraordinary symposium in August funded by a
man who had.
Walter Kistler made a fortune in aerospace, which he now spends on getting
people to think long-term. He set up the Foundation for the Future, which every
other year awards the $100 000 Kistler Prize for research that helps us
understand the link between genetics and behaviour. This year’s winner was
E. O. Wilson, founder of sociobiology.
Kistler brought together a mixed bunch of scientists, futurologists and
environmentalists…
