Richard Fisher

Richard Fisher is a Senior Journalist with the BBC in London, writing and commissioning feature-length stories for the website BBC.com, and the author of The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time (Wildfire, March 2023).   He is also a freelance editorial consultant, speaker and writer, whose work spans science, technology, health, history and philosophy, and is particularly interested in stories and ideas with the themes of long-term thinking and time perception.   Richard is also an Honorary Research Associate at University College London, teaching a module on the MSc Science Communication course, and formerly a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, where he researched the history and causes of short-termism, the psychology of time, and the long view of humanity and the planet.  His book The Long View, published 30 March 2023, explores these ideas in depth. He also writes a newsletter called The Long View: A Field Guide.