The clock of the long now : time and responsibility / Stewart brand.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Basic Books, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 1st editionDescription: 190 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 046504512X
- 9780465045129
- 0297642995
- 9780297642992
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Books | Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room | BD638 .B73 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31560000029294 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-179) and index.
Notional clock -- Kairos and Chronos -- Moore's wall -- The singularity -- Rush -- The long now -- The order of civilization -- Old-time religion -- Clock/library -- Ben is big -- The world's slowest computer -- Burning libraries -- Dead hand -- Ending the digital dark age -- 10,000-year library -- Tragic optimism -- Futurismo -- Uses of the future -- Uses of the past -- Reframing the problems -- Slow science -- The long view -- Generations -- Sustained endeavor -- The infinite game.
Though perhaps best known as a writer, Stewart Brand is primarily an inventor and designer. Trained as a biologist and army officer, he was an early multimedia artist. Brand has created a number of lasting institutions, including New Games Tournaments and the Hackers Conference. He is, with Daniel Hillis, Kevin Kelly, Esther Dyson and Brian Eno (among others), a founding member of the Long Now Foundation. He also co-founded the Global Business Network. Both organizations are dedicated to fostering "the art of the long view."
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Ideas behind a monumental clock that will run 10000 years
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