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How do we make long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare? How do we make the taking of long-term responsibility inevitable?
Stewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
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youtube.comHow long is now, usually? In the Clock discussion Esther Dyson suggested, “On the stock exchange it’s today, on the Net it’s a month, in fashion it’s a season, in demographics a decade, in most companies it’s the next quarter.” The shortest now is performed in a poem by the Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska: When I pronounce the word Future, the first
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Each unit is within 4-8x apart from each other; each group is ~7,000x apart.
Micro units
The Quantum (50 picoseconds) — the time for light through a hair;
The Atom (500 nanoseconds) — the time for light to travel a pen;
The Hertz (4 milliseconds) — a single violin string oscillation for a high C;
The Frame (25 milliseconds) — a single shot at 40 fps;
The
“We are the first generation that influences global climate, and the last generation to escape the consequences.”
Stewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
The Really Big One
According to Google this translates to “Traditional architecture that connects to the next generation, remembers the wisdom of our predecessors”