SALT SummariesCondensed ideas about long-term thinking summarized by Stewart Brand (with Kevin Kelly, Alexander Rose and Paul Saffo) and a foreword by Brian Eno. These are summaries of talks by Jared Diamond, Craig Venter, Bruce Sterling, Jill Tarter, Martin Rees, Clay Shirky, Niall Ferguson, Jimmy Wales, Mary Catherine Bateson, Paul Hawken, Vernor Vinge, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Harris, Will Wright, Orville Schell, Nassim Taleb, Michael Pollan, Wade Davis, Lera Boroditsky, David Eagleman, Richard Rhodes, Paul Romer, Matt Ridley and more... [SALT stands for Seminars About Long-term Thinking. The SALT talks are a monthly speaking series organized in San Francisco by The Long Now Foundation.] |
Contents
The Long Now | 13 |
Third World Conservation | 29 |
Progress on the 10000year | 43 |
The Difficulty of Looking Far Ahead | 76 |
The Next 100 Years of Science | 96 |
02007 | 105 |
But Can It Relearn to Act Longterm? | 112 |
The Deeper News About | 118 |
the secret to effective forecasting | 163 |
Human Evolution and the Environment | 180 |
Botmediated Reality | 186 |
at Nation Scale | 195 |
of San Francisco 3 | 201 |
A Theory of History | 219 |
Smithsonian Forever | 226 |
The Archaeology | 233 |
Why Foxes Are Better | 127 |
We Are Not the First | 133 |
The Long Zoom | 139 |
The End of History | 146 |
Mapping the Frontier | 154 |
The Wayfinders Why Ancient | 239 |
the Collapse of Civilization | 247 |
Twilight of the Bombs | 263 |
89 | 292 |
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