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The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility

The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility

Brand, Stewart

Paperback

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0465007805
ISBN13: 9780465007806
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Apr 6 2000
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.34 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
A thought-provoking guide for the practical use of long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in and out of sight.

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

The Clock of the Long Now is a potent book that combines the chronicling of fantastic technology with equally visionary philosophical inquiry.

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