{"id":3958,"date":"2020-09-24T15:57:34","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T15:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2020-09-24T15:57:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T15:57:55","slug":"could-right-now-be-the-most-influential-time-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/24\/could-right-now-be-the-most-influential-time-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Could right now be the most influential time ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article__intro\">Could right now be the most influential time ever? Richard Fisher looks at the case for and against \u2013 and why it matters.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"body-text-card b-font-family-serif\">\n<div class=\"drop-capped b-reith-sans-font drop-capped--future\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"body-text-card__text body-text-card__text--future body-text-card__text--drop-capped body-text-card__text--flush-text\">\n<div>\n<p>What is the best word to describe our present moment? You might be tempted to reach for \u201cunprecedented\u201d, or perhaps \u201cextraordinary\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s another adjective for our times that you may not have heard before: \u201chingey\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It may not be a particularly elegant term, but it describes a potentially profound idea: that we may be living through the most influential period of time ever. And it\u2019s about far more than the Covid-19 pandemic and politics of 2020. Leading philosophers and researchers are debating whether the events that occur in our century could shape the fate of our species over the next thousands if not millions of years. The \u201chinge of history\u201d hypothesis proposes that we are, right now, at a turning point.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is this really plausible?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20200923-the-hinge-of-history-long-termism-and-existential-risk\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20200923-the-hinge-of-history-long-termism-and-existential-risk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Presented by Romano Pisciotti<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could right now be the most influential time ever? Richard Fisher looks at the case for and against \u2013 and why it matters. What is the best word to describe our present moment? You might be tempted to reach for \u201cunprecedented\u201d, or perhaps \u201cextraordinary\u201d. But here\u2019s another adjective for our times that you may not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/24\/could-right-now-be-the-most-influential-time-ever\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continua a leggere <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Could right now be the most influential time ever?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,621],"tags":[185,41],"class_list":["post-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-pisciotti","tag-bbc","tag-romano-pisciotti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3960,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions\/3960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanopisciotti.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}