Ari Wallach
Author, Futurist, and Social Systems Strategist
Ari is a futurist & social systems strategist. He is the founder and executive director of Longpath, and has devoted his life to bring long-term thinking and coordinated behavior to the individual, organizational, and societal realms in order to ensure humanity flourishes for centuries to come. Wallach’s TED talk on Longpath has been viewed more than 2.6 million times and translated into 21 languages.
Through his New York-based strategic innovation consultancy Wallach brings Longpath thinking to corporate and government clients like CNN, Volkswagen Global, The UN Refugee Agency, Natural Resources Defense Council and the U.S. State Department.
Wallach co-founded the 2008 presidential initiative “The Great Schlep with Sarah Silverman” and hosted “Fast Company Futures with Ari Wallach.” He is adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, lecturing on Megatrends, AI, and the futures of governance and public policy and delivers keynote speeches around the world focused on the promise and potential of the human project.
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How “Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs” is a Jewish Book
In an article in the Jewish Telegraph Agency, Reboot Network Member Ari Wallach shared the concept behind his new book Longpath: Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs, and how it is a Jewish book. He opens the book with the story of Choni and the carob tree. He said the next 203 pages is basically extending the “Why, How and Now What” of this story for our current moment in human history:
One day a man named Choni was walking along and saw a man planting a carob tree. Choni asked him, “How many years will it take until it will bear fruit?” He said to him, “Not for seventy years.” Choni said to him, “Do you really believe you’ll live another seventy years?” The man answered, “I found this world provided with carob trees, and as my ancestors planted them for me, so I too plant them for my descendants.”
—FROM THE TALMUD (TA’ANIT 23A)
Read more about the book here.