He thinks of it as a young restaurant, its brain and limbs still developing. Pretend you’re looking at an odometer or a digital scale. You have to add the zero in order to let yourself think in terms of centuries instead of decades. “I feel that we are infants in our life span,” he says. “If you put a zero in front, you foster that kind of long-term thinking. We should make decisions that make this evolution last for 912 years.”
