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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  The Clock of the Long Nowby Stewart Brand
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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:
Review:"Brand's...mind-stretching book challenges readers to get outside themselves and combat the short-term irresponsible thinking that has led to environmental destruction and social chaos....These ideas deserve more than 15 minutes of fame." Publishers Weekly Review:"For minds trapped in the ever-tightening time spiral of techno-capitalist progress, where fame is fifteen minutes and the future is this quarter's profits, [Stewart Brand] has provided a wonderful escape route — an exhilarating, liberating, total change of scale and pace." Ursula K. Le Guin Review:"Inspired boffinry: the building of a very slow time-machine. A fine and thoughtful read on the eve of the new century." William Gibson, author of Neuromancer Review:"[B]oth fascinating and...maybe just a bit revolutionary." Library Journal Synopsis:Civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span. This text describes a long-term project designed to encourage people to think beyond the psychological barrier of the millennium and into the future. The Long Now Foundation, founded by some of the world's most influential and cutting-edge thinkers, plan to build a gigantic mechanical clock, perhaps as large as Stonehenge, in the American desert. It is intended to record time for 10,000 years. About the AuthorStewart 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. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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