Product 'Longtermism' and the Danger it May Bring

In Christopher Nolan's film Tenet, the future is at war with the past "because the oceans rose and the rivers ran dry." Thanks to catastrophic climate change, no path lay ahead for our descendants, and their only hope was to carve out a future by orchestrating a genocide in our past. As the film's protagonist, Neil, explains: "Every generation looks out for its own survival." It's hard to watch a film like Tenet and not contemplate the longer-term consequences of our actions -- how will the future judge us? Working in product, we tend to approach most opportunities with good intention.