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.
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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.
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Anything that gets this I-want-it-NOW society to think beyond tomorrow or next week has to be a good thing. This book describes an outrageously wonderful project to make us look ahead, way beyond the end of our noses, our lives and the lives of our cultures so that the change in perception leads us to treat 'NOW' with respect. It must have been wrtitten to include people like me among the readers, because I have no scientific or technical expertise and yet I found it easy enough to understand and almost compelling to read. It's about a clock, but what a clock! [And yes, I. too, thought, why would i be interested in reading about a clock?] Most of us have at least 6,000 minutes a week of wakefulness - I suggest you give a few hundred over to getting hold of this book and reading it. The clock's ticking...
