For too long we've been shortsighted, mistaking our cleverness for wisdom. Now, it's time for politics to take a longer view Shortly before he died in 2007, the celebrated American novelist, iconoclast and second world war veteran Kurt Vonnegut gave a final interview. "My country is in ruins," he said. "I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl." Vonnegut was 84, and sounded razor sharp as he spoke about inequality and political shortsightedness, adding that in the history of the United States "one thing that no cabinet has ever had is a Secretary of the Future, and there are no plans… Source - Full Article https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/27/why-we-need-a-department-of-the-future