{"product_id":"farsighted-9781473693661","title":"Farsighted","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA groundbreaking book about making once-in-a-lifetime decisions, from the bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come From\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRiveting... As a deep thinker and gifted storyteller, Johnson is the right author to tackle the topic\u003c\/b\u003e. He's at his best when analyzing impossibly complex decisions... One of Johnson's \u003cb\u003ethought-provoking\u003c\/b\u003e points is that [people who excel at long-term thinking] read novels, which are ideal exercises in mental time travel and empathy. \u003cb\u003eI think he's right\u003c\/b\u003e * NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrecision planning or gut instinct?\u003c\/b\u003e Well-placed to dig into the dilemmas of decision making, Steven \u003cb\u003eJohnson gracefully serves up examples ranging from 17th-century urban planning to contemporary artificial intelligence... Now we all have to learn from their example.\u003c\/b\u003e * FINANCIAL TIMES *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohnson is explicitly focused on real-life decisions that (ideally) involve serious deliberation... [He] reminds us that, fundamentally, choices concern competing narratives, and we're likely to make better choices if we have richer stories, with more fleshed-out characters, a more nuanced understanding of motives, and a deeper appreciation of how decisions are likely to reverberate and resound.\u003c\/b\u003e * WALL STREET JOURNAL *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven Johnson is a great science writer\u003c\/b\u003e * BILL CLINTON *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven Johnson's mind works in wondrous ways\u003c\/b\u003e * SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn infectiously exciting writer... Steven Johnson is that rarest of commodities among twenty-first-century public intellectuals... His is a questing  intelligence, eager to consider opposing arguments, explore opposing arguments, explore new terrain, and notice underlying patterns he hasn't seen before.\u003c\/b\u003e * SALON.COM *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003efascinating\u003c\/b\u003e history of how people made decisions with lasting impacts over recent centuries, exploring ways to plan wisely for now and for future generations. Johnson's book rightly devotes ample space to climate change, and s\u003cb\u003ehows how we can learn from past mistakes\u003c\/b\u003e in warfare, banking and other realms * NEW SCIENTIST *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInsightful but eccentric book . . . \u003ci\u003eFarsighted\u003c\/i\u003e is intelligent . . . impressively erudite\u003c\/b\u003e * SUNDAY BUSINESS POST *","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739553608023,"sku":"9781473693661","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781473693661.jpg?v=1723812244","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/farsighted-9781473693661","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}