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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Basic Books, a member of the Peseus Books Group, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: 198 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0465007805
  • 9780465007806
  • (cloth)
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 -- Appendix : engaging clock/library -- Afterword : January 02000.
Summary: The author explores the dearth of "long-term" thinking in the Western world and proposes a plan to make future planning a regular feature of human consciousness.
Holdings
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room BD638 .B73 1999b (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000009221

Pagination of original hardcover ed.: 190 p.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-187) 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 -- Appendix : engaging clock/library -- Afterword : January 02000.

The author explores the dearth of "long-term" thinking in the Western world and proposes a plan to make future planning a regular feature of human consciousness.

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ideas behind a monumental clock that will run 10000 years

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