# The Future Requires a Larger Time Horizon by Martin Rees > “Our time-horizons have hugely extended back into the past. But there has to be an even greater enlargement in our concept of the future.” > **— Martin Rees**, *Deep Time, Long Now Foundation, 2018* ## Sources and Context - **Direct publication and full context:** [Deep Time](https://longnow.org/ideas/deep-time/) — The linked publication contains the quoted passage and its surrounding argument. - **Master research record:** [[research/Martin Rees on Machine Succession, Post-Human Intelligence, and the Cosmic Future|Martin Rees on Machine Succession, Post-Human Intelligence, and the Cosmic Future]] — preserves this object inside the open Martin Rees source dossier. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/MARS|MARS]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Article:** [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Deep Time|Deep Time]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Deep Time|Deep Time]] - [[wiki/Cosmic View|Cosmic View]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Our time-horizons have hugely extended back into the past. But there has to be an even greater enlargement in our concept of the future.” — Martin Rees, Deep Time, Long Now Foundation, 2018 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-martin-rees-future-requires-larger-time-horizon ```