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This may explain my interest in the Clock/Library project—the Clock is the outside frame of reference; the Library is the backup.
Stewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
The ambition and folly of the Clock/Library is to reframe human endeavor, and to do so not with a thesis but with a thing. All this thing can do is give permission to think long term.
Stewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
Zen Buddhists define their task as “infinite gratitude for the past. Infinite service to the present. Infinite responsibility to the future.”
Stewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World
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Brian Eno proposed “the long now” as what we are aiming to promote. Peter Schwartz suggested 10,000 years as the appropriate time envelope for the project: 10,000 years ago was the end of the Ice Age and beginning of agriculture and civilization; we should develop an equal perspective into the future.
Stewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
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