The Clock Of The Long Now: Time And Responsibility - Hardcover

Brand, Stewart

 
9780465045129: The Clock Of The Long Now: Time And Responsibility
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 046504512X ISBN 13: 9780465045129
Verlag: Basic Books, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
046504512X
ISBN 13 
9780465045129
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
208
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