Ian McEwan on the Present as Future Past
Past Present Future · David Runciman
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Show Notes
David talks to novelist Ian McEwan, who was our first ever guest on PPF, about how the future will view our present once the disasters we are brewing come to pass. How might humanity scrape through the rest of the century? Will future generations see us as intellectually vibrant or essentially trivial? If we turn out to be unknowable to those who follow us, does that mean we are unknowable to ourselves? A wide-ranging conversation about how past, present and future co-exist in time.
Ian McEwan’s latest novel is What We Can Know https://bit.ly/4ogYN5u
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