Daniel Gilbert is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. His research with Tim Wilson on "affective forecasting" investigates how and how well people can make predictions about[…]
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Gilbert would like to interview my great, great, great granddaughter.
Question: Whom would you like to interview, and what would you ask?
Dan Gilbert: If I could interview anybody, I would like to interview my great, great, great granddaughter. And I’d like to ask her what she thinks we did wrong. You know, hindsight is so sharp and foresight is so feeble, that a single voice from the future would mean so much more to me than all the voices of the present.
Recorded on: 6/12/07
