The Clock of the Long Now

Time and Responsibility

Stewart Brand (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2000 | New edition
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) (Verlag)
978-0-7538-1012-5 (ISBN)

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First published in 1999, this book demonstrates that humanity has developed a dangerously short attention span. Some sort of balancing corrective to short-sightedness is needed, to encourage the long view and acceptance of long-term responsibility, and so the author calls for the creation of a machine, which is also a myth!

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 founding member of the Long Now Foundation. He began The Whole Earth Catalogue (10 milllion copies sold, worldwide) & co-founded the Global Business Network.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.3.2000
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 198 mm
Gewicht	200 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	0-7538-1012-3 / 0753810123
ISBN-13	978-0-7538-1012-5 / 9780753810125
Zustand	Neuware