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Though perhaps best known as a writer, Stewart Brand is primarily an inventor and designer. Trained as a biologist and army officer, he was an early multimedia artist. Brand has created a number of lasting institutions, including New Games Tournaments and the Hackers Conference. He is, with Daniel Hillis, Kevin Kelly, Esther Dyson and Brian Eno (among others), a founding member of the Long Now Foundation. He also co-founded the Global Business Network.
Both organizations are dedicated to fostering "the art of the long view."
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Time, Responsibility, Strategic planning, ComputersShowing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
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The Clock of the Long Now: Times and Responsibility
March 2001, Tandem Library
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The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility
April 2000, Basic Books
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Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility
2000, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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1999, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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The clock of the long now: time and responsibility
1999, Basic Books
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-179) and index.
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Using the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Now 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.
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