The Clock of the Long Now - by Stewart Brand (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>An important figure in the U.S. counterculture, Brand sees the inability to imagine the future in the new millennium as an unwillingness to accept responsibility for it. In this work, he tackles the question of how to make long-term thinking an integral part of our fast-paced lives.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Using the designing and building of the <i>Clock of the Long Now</i> as a framework, this is a book 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. Here are the central questions it inspires: 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 This is a potent book that combines the chronicling of fantastic technology with equally visionary philosophical inquiry.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Stewart Brand</b> is the founder of The Whole Earth Catalog and Co-Evolution Quarterly. He is the author of <i>The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT</i> and <i>How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built</i>, and is the Director of the Global Business Network in Emeryville, California. He lives on a tugboat in San Francisco Bay.
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