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Space is Dead. Why Do We Keep Writing About It?
Maybe our best bet of finding out what’s Out There in the universe is to extend our reach not into the vastness of space but ...
Long Now Foundation2 天Opinion
The Weather Out There
A work of speculative fiction about communication between humans and across the stars — and what happens when that ...
Long Now Foundation2 个月
What the Dying Teach the Living
Frank Ostaseski is a Buddhist teacher, lecturer, and author focusing on contemplative end-of-life care. His book is The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully. It’s a ...
Long Now Foundation3 个月
About Long Now
Below is an essay by a founding board member Stewart Brand on the need for, and the mechanism by which, The Long Now Foundation is attempting to encourage long-term thinking. Civilization is revving ...
Long Now Foundation7 个月
The Long Now Foundation
is a nonprofit established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking. It is still being assembled deep inside a mountain in west Texas. The Clock provides a rare invitation to think and engineer at the ...
Long Now Foundation2 年
Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
One day when I was having lunch with Richard Feynman, I mentioned to him that I was planning to start a company to build a parallel computer with a million processors. His reaction was unequivocal, ...
Long Now Foundation2 年
The Long Game: How to be a long-term thinker in a short-term world
Dorie Clark is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and consults and speaks for clients such as Google, Yale University, and the World Bank. Clark teaches executive education for ...
Long Now Foundation3 年
The Transformation: A Future History of the World from 02020 to 02050
Peter Leyden has spent his entire career figuring out the future, explaining what’s probably coming next, and helping envision how we could create a better world. He worked at the early Wired magazine ...
Long Now Foundation4 年
The 10,000 Year Clock
The full scale 10,000 Year Clock is now under construction. While there is no completion date scheduled, we do plan to open it to the public once it is ready. The essay below by Long Now board member ...
Long Now Foundation4 年
Why the West Rules - For Now
A professor at Stanford since 1995, Ian Morris founded and directed the Stanford Archaeology Center and ran a dig in Sicily that dates to the 7th century BCE, chaired the Classics Department, and ...
Long Now Foundation4 年
Becoming a Better Ancestor
Roman Krznaric is a public philosopher who writes about the power of ideas to change society. His newest book on the history and future of long-term thinking is The Good Ancestor: A Radical ...