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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stewart Brand |
| ISBN: | 046504512X 9780465045129 0297642995 9780297642992 |
| OCLC Number: | 41471409 |
| Description: | 190 p. ; ill. ; 25 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Stewart Brand. |
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Abstract:
Using the designing and building of the "Clock of the Long Now" as a framework, this is 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.
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