JONATHAN COOK: Business survival, paranoia and the Fermi paradox
Business leaders should take heed of the Great Filter theory, which suggests all life must overcome certain challenges
17 September 2024 - 05:00
Some apparently unique business ideas go boldly where no-one has thought to go before, while other ideas fail because they have been tried before but have been filtered out by some intrinsic flaw. Where is the difference?
Let’s turn to the Fermi paradox. The physicist Enrico Fermi, in conversation with other famous physicists in 1950, apparently posed the question: “But where is everybody?” He was referring to aliens that probability would suggest ought to have visited us by now. Remember these are serious, renowned scientists. ..
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