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Taking the Long View
Some years ago, the writer Stewart Brand proposed that to understand a civilization, you need to look at multiple layers functioning simultaneously at different speeds.22 Fashion changes rapidly, while the business pursuits in an area alter more slowly. Infrastructure—such as roads and buildings—evolves more gradually. The rules and laws of a socie
... See moreDavid Eagleman • Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
“if we’re setting out to change the character of technology in our lives, we’d be wise to learn from the character of places.”*
On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
The move from stocks to flows, from fixity to fluidity, is not about leaving behind stability. It is about harnessing a wide-open frontier where so many additional options based on mutability are possible.
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
Civilizations with long nows look after things better. In those places you feel a very strong but flexible structure which is built to absorb shocks and in fact incorporate them.”
Stewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
some institutions that seem “stagnant” are actually powerful forces for generating legitimacy. It being slow is the point, much in the same way that a song isn’t played as one chord. Music isn’t played to be finished. Much of the importance of modern institutions is to act as lightning rods for negotiation and conversation. If you are *only* a tech... See more