The Clock of the Long Now

Time and Responsibility

Stewart Brand (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

190 Seiten

1999
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Verlag)
978-0-297-64299-2 (ISBN)

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Civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span. This text describes a long-term project designed to encourage people to think beyond the psychological barrier of the millennium and into the future. The Long Now Foundation, founded by some of the world's most influential and cutting-edge thinkers, plan to build a gigantic mechanical clock, perhaps as large as Stonehenge, in the American desert. It is intended to record time for 10,000 years.

Stewart Brand is, with Daniel Hillis, Kevin Kelly, and Brian Eno, a foundingmember of the Long Now Foundation. He began The Whole Earth Catalogue (10 mil

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.5.1999
Reihe/Serie	Master Minds S.
Zusatzinfo	illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	132 x 198 mm
Gewicht	354 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	0-297-64299-5 / 0297642995
ISBN-13	978-0-297-64299-2 / 9780297642992
Zustand	Neuware