The Clock of the Long Now - Long Now
Once through the doors you head into the darkness of a long tunnel. At the end, there’s the mildest hint of light ahead that you slowly find your way to. You look up. There is a faint light filtering down to you through giant gears illuminating the beginning of a spiral staircase.
LONG NOW — fostering long term thinking
The Long Now Foundation. 2 Marina Boulevard. Fort Mason Center, Building A. San Francisco, California 94123. Long Now's website is changing... The Long Now Foundation is a nonprofit encouraging imagination at the timescale of civilization— the next and last 10,000 years— what we call the long now.
The Truth About Antarctica - Long Now
Feb 21, 2023 · The only continent with no history of human habitation, the vast ice fields of Antarctica have formed a blank slate onto which humanity can project itself: all of itself, from the heroic, imperial superego to the conspiratorial id. It has attracted pilgrims and truth-seekers, scientists and artists, writers and soldiers.
Seminars About Long-term Thinking: A Monthly ... - Long Now …
Nov 22 Roman Krznaric, Kate Raworth“What Doughnut Economics Can Learn From History”. The Long Now Foundation's monthly Seminars were started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking; to help nudge civilization toward our goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare.
The Enduring Trajectory of Jewish Fashion - Long Now
Dec 7, 2023 · The traditional outfitting of people of Hebraic descent in the Levant and West Asia, from at least a thousand years BCE until the 01920s, mainly consisted of cloaks, tunics, and caps. FromCostumes of All Nations (01882), illustrated by by Albert Kretschmer, painters and costumer to the Royal Court Theatre, Berin, and Dr. Carl Rohrbach.
The Size of Space - Long Now
Nov 18, 02019. The “Big Here” doesn’t get much bigger than Neal Agarwal ‘s The Size of Space, a new interactive visualization that provides a dose of perspective on our place in the universe. Starting with an astronaut, users can arrow through to different objects, celestial bodies and galaxies, ultimately zooming out to the observable ...
Stewart Brand
“Smart, practical, wise and full of goodwill.” —RICHARD RHODES “This is a short course on how to change your mind intelligently.” —KEVIN KELLY “…charts a way forward that shatters conventional thinking, and yet leaves one brimming with hope. It has been years since I have read a book that in so many ways changed the way I think about so many fundamental issues.” —WADE DAVIS ...
Projects - Long Now
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How DNA is Helping Black Brazilians Uncover Their Roots
The DNA do Brasil project aims to sequence a wealth of DNA from Brazilian people, with a focus on historically underrepresented groups like Black and Indigenous Brazilians. About 80% of the sequenced genomes in the world come from white people of European or North American origin, notes Pereira. In practice, this means that studies that rely on ...
Why the future doesn't need us. Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species. By Bill Joy. From the moment I became involved in the creation of new technologies, their ethical dimensions have concerned me, but it was only in the autumn of 1998 ...