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.
關於作者:
Stewart Brand is, with Daniel Hillis, Kevin Kelly, and Brian
Eno, a founding member of the Long Now Foundation. He began The
Whole Earth Catalogue 10 milllion copies sold, worldwide
co-founded the Global Business Network. --This text refers to an
out of print or unavailable edition of this title.