Embracing Deep Time Thinking

"The past two Sundays I reflected, here and here in 13.7, on my anthropological fieldwork among experts developing a Safety Case supporting what might, in Finland in the early 2020s, become the world's first working geological repository for high-level nuclear waste."

"I explored how these experts dealt with geological, ecological and climatological changes that might occur over the coming millennia."

"Now, though, I'm going to take a step back and think about deep time — our very distant future — in a more holistic, speculative and global way. I do this because of my feeling that something about our collective experience of time is now undergoing a profound transformation."