Clock Of The Long Now: Time And Responsibility: The Ideas Behind The World's Slowest Computer
by Stewart Brand
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Author: Stewart BrandEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-04-05
ISBN: 0465007805
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Basic Books
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Book Review: Profound and thought provoking
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the type of book I guess I always look for when I enter a bookstore .. one that is going to give a profound new perspective or insight into life. The book, and the whole Long Now foundation, are all about giving people a new perspective ... 10,000 miles high, or rather 10,000 years. It is largely a collection of short, concise essays on the subject about the future and our responsibility to it ... but the timescales involved are not concerned with the next generation, or the next fifty years, but rather what we are doing now to improve and secure the future of the planet and humanity 10,000 years from now. The book also serves as collateral for the author's real long term project .. to build a clock that will last for 10,000 years .. intended as icon / myth to get people thining about their responsibilities to the real long term future. If you haven't heard of the of the Long Now Foundation, or the Clock of the Long Now, then you surely will in the years to come .. its founders are amongst the leading thinkers and engineers that have led the information age revolution .. Mitch Kapor, Danny Hillis, Steware Brand. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys thought-provoking ideas of the most profound sort .. and as a book that will possibly change the way you think about your own future as well as that of humanities.
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