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The clock of the long now : time and responsibility / Stewart Brand.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brand, Stewart.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Time.
- Responsibility.
- Strategic planning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, c1999.
- Summary:
- Using the Millennial Clock as a paradigm for the Long Now, Stewart Brand offers a practical introduction to the concept of long-term responsibility.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-187) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-94536-X
- 9786612945366
- 0-7867-2292-4
- OCLC:
- 670411872
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