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The Clock of the Long Now - by Stewart Brand (Paperback)

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  • Using the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Now as a framework, this is a book about the practical use of long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in and out of sight.
  • About the Author: Stewart Brand is the founder of The Whole Earth Catalog and Co-Evolution Quarterly.
  • 208 Pages
  • Social Science, Future Studies

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About the Book



An important figure in the U.S. counterculture, Brand sees the inability to imagine the future in the new millennium as an unwillingness to accept responsibility for it. In this work, he tackles the question of how to make long-term thinking an integral part of our fast-paced lives.



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Using the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Now as a framework, this is a book about the practical use of long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in and out of sight. Here are the central questions it inspires: How do we make long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare? Discipline in thought allows freedom. One needs the space and reliability to predict continuity to have the confidence not to be afraid of revolutions Taking the time to think of the future is more essential now than ever, as culture accelerates beyond its ability to be measured Probable things are vastly outnumbered by countless near-impossible eventualities. Reality is statistically forced to be extraordinary; fiction is not allowed this freedom This is a potent book that combines the chronicling of fantastic technology with equally visionary philosophical inquiry.



About the Author



Stewart Brand is the founder of The Whole Earth Catalog and Co-Evolution Quarterly. He is the author of The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT and How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built, and is the Director of the Global Business Network in Emeryville, California. He lives on a tugboat in San Francisco Bay.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.02 Inches (H) x 5.34 Inches (W) x .56 Inches (D)
Weight: .5 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 208
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Future Studies
Publisher: Basic Books
Format: Paperback
Author: Stewart Brand
Language: English
Street Date: April 6, 2000
TCIN: 76999054
UPC: 9780465007806
Item Number (DPCI): 247-17-5507
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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