The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and ResponsibilityUsing 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. |
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16 THE CLOCK accelerating adder rings Alexander Rose ancient archives become billion Brian Eno bristlecone build built burning C. S. Holling called Carlston century CHAPTER chip chronos civilization Clock/Library culture cycle Danny Hillis decades Digital Dark Age disk display Doug Carlston Earth Ending the Digital environmental Esther Dyson Finite forest Freeman Dyson future futurists Global Business Network governance happen historian human hundred idea infinite game infrastructure Internet Jaron Lanier kairos keep Kevin Kelly layer live Long Now board Long Now Foundation Long Now's long view long-term mechanism millennia Moore's Law mountain pace Park past Paul Saffo pendulum precession preserved problem prototype question record Regis McKenna religion responsibility Revolution rotating scale scenario Singularity slow species story things are getting thousand tion ture Univ York