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Nature 407, 128 (14 September 2000) | doi:10.1038/35025284

Open Innovation Challenges

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Step back to see how science and humanity fit in the big picture

See associated Correspondence: Folkman, Nature 412, 677 (August 2001)

Klaus Jaffe1

  1. Department of Biology, Universidad Simón Bolívar , Caracas 1080, Venezuela

Sir — Although your Millennium Essays focus on events in the past 1,000 years, it is easy to lose perspective when analysing time-windows much greater than our life-span. Our brains are not adapted to think in vast time-frames.