The Clock of the Long Now

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CURRENT EVENTS / TECHNOLOGY / PHILOSOPHY Using the Millennial Clock-a supremely slow computer that will keep perfect time for the next 10,000 years-as a paradigm for the Long Now, Stewart Brand, called "the least recognized most influential thinker in America/' offers a practical manual that introduces us to the concept of long-term responsibility. "Read this book slowly. The Clock of the Long Now is incandescent. An elixir for jittery, time-starved minds." -Paul Hawken, author of The Ecology of Commerce and co-author of Natural Capitalism "The future is arriving more quickly than it used to, making foresight more important than ever. Stewart s focus, as wonderfully insightful and epigrammatic as ever, is on how to promote truly long-term thinking and responsibility."-William H. Calvin, author of The Cerebral Code and How Brains Think "In the 1960s, Mr. Brand was one of the first to see the power that pictures of the whole earth from space would have. Now he hopes the vistas of deep... Tovább

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CURRENT EVENTS / TECHNOLOGY / PHILOSOPHY Using the Millennial Clock-a supremely slow computer that will keep perfect time for the next 10,000 years-as a paradigm for the Long Now, Stewart Brand, called "the least recognized most influential thinker in America/' offers a practical manual that introduces us to the concept of long-term responsibility. "Read this book slowly. The Clock of the Long Now is incandescent. An elixir for jittery, time-starved minds." -Paul Hawken, author of The Ecology of Commerce and co-author of Natural Capitalism "The future is arriving more quickly than it used to, making foresight more important than ever. Stewart s focus, as wonderfully insightful and epigrammatic as ever, is on how to promote truly long-term thinking and responsibility."-William H. Calvin, author of The Cerebral Code and How Brains Think "In the 1960s, Mr. Brand was one of the first to see the power that pictures of the whole earth from space would have. Now he hopes the vistas of deep time will have a similar impact on the way people think about culture and the world's slow rhythms of change. Whether this happens or not, though, any record of serious attempts to deal with deep time will send one important message to the future: that the people of the early 21st century aspired to do more than just scribbling their names in the margins of eternity. They had something to say."-The Economist "In one way or another, everyone has a stake in the future. This well-written, interesting, intelligent book is about as good an operating manual as you'll find on how to ensure that that future doesn't slip away through misadventure, miscalculation or just plain neglect "-John Casti, Nature "Quotable quotes, plentiful paradoxes and human values make this a book to be savored and discussed-slowly.''-Publishers Weekly STEWART BRAND is an inventor and designer, as well as the author of How Buildings Learn, The Media Lab and The Whole Earth Catalog. He is a founding member of the Long Now Foundation, and he co-founded the Global Business Network. Both organizations are dedicated to fostering "the art of the long view." Vissza