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Jared Diamond: How Societies Fail -- long term thinking

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Why do some societies survive for thousands of years?
Perhaps the best authority on developments of civilization and their collapse, Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, Steel: Collapse) delivered a 70 minute lecture in SF in 2006.
His comments on long-term thinking and decision making, with his dry humor, is as relevant today as 3 years ago -- perhaps even more so.
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