The clock of the long now : time and responsibility / Stewart brand.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Basic Books, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 1st editionDescription: 190 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 046504512X
  • 9780465045129
  • 0297642995
  • 9780297642992
Subject(s):
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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."
Holdings
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Books 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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