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A. Lewis • Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age
Annika Hansteen-Izora • Time is Water
Moore’s Law brings such tenfold structural changes every three years or so, thus three revolutions every decade, for five decades straight.
Stewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
The Really Big One
Such a clock, if sufficiently impressive and well engineered, would embody deep time for people. It would be charismatic to visit, interesting to think about, and famous enough to become iconic in the public discourse. Ideally, it would do for thinking about time what the photographs of Earth from space have done for thinking about the environment.
... See moreStewart Brand • The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
with the invention of the clock, Eternity ceased to serve as the measure and focus of human events.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Yet, history was not merely deep patterns and the long now. There was also a time and a place where individuals could leave an extraordinary impact.