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The Clock Of The Long Now

Time and Responsibility
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Using the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Now as a framework, this is a book about the practical use of long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in and out of sight. Here are the central questions it inspires: * How do we make long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare? * Discipline in thought allows freedom. One needs the space and reliability to predict continuity to have the confidence not to be afraid of revolutions * Taking the time to think of the future is more essential now than ever, as culture accelerates beyond its ability to be measured * Probable things are vastly outnumbered by countless near-impossible eventualities. Reality is statistically forced to be extraordinary; fiction is not allowed this freedom This is a potent book that combines the chronicling of fantastic technology with equally visionary philosophical inquiry.

Author Biography:

Stewart Brand is the founder of The Whole Earth catalogue and Co-Evolution Quarterly. He is the author of The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT and How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built, and is the Director of the Global Business Network in Emeryville, California. He lives on a tugboat in San Francisco Bay.
Release date NZ
April 6th, 2000
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Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United States
Imprint
Basic Books
Pages
208
Publisher
Basic Books
Dimensions
200x127x11
ISBN-13
9780465007806
Product ID
2397036

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