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Wade Davis Ticket Info
The Long Now Blog —
Authority: 584
The Long Now Foundation’s monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking presents Wade Davis on “The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World” Wednesday January 13, 02010 at 7:30 pm at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco Long Now Members can reserve 2 seats, join today! or you can ...1 week ago -
Long Now Media Update
The Long Now Blog —
Authority: 584
There is new media available from our monthly series, the Seminars About Long-term Thinking . Stewart Brand’s summaries and audio downloads or podcasts of the talks are free to the public; Long Now members can view HD video of the Seminars and comment on them. Listen to the Audio of Rick Prelinger’s ...1 week ago -
Asteroid Philosophy
Gerry Canavan —
Authority: 146
You, and a quarter of a million other folks, have embarked on a 1000-year voyage aboard a hollowed-out asteroid. What sort of governance and society do you think would be most comfortable, not to mention likely to survive the trip without civil war, famine, and reigns of terror? How do you design a society for the ...1 week ago -
Rick Prelinger’s “Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 4 “
The Long Now Blog —
Authority: 584
Gas Stations, Not Flowers The fourth incarnation of Lost Landscapes of San Francisco played to a sold out house at the Herbst Theater with the chanteuse Suzanne Ramsey opening the evening with a selection of historical San Francisco songs including the 01926 gem Masculine Women Feminine Men . Rick Prelinger ...2 weeks ago -
The technology of 10,000 years
The Long Now Blog —
Authority: 584
Tunnel Boring Machine daylights at Yucca Mountain Back 02002 Peter Schwartz wrote a great piece about our visit to the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste site. We often refer to it as “the other 10,000 year project”. However 10,000 years is just the legally binding time congress set forth. They actually have a ...2 weeks ago -
Long Now Media Update
The Long Now Blog —
Authority: 584
There is new media available from our monthly series, the Seminars About Long-term Thinking . Stewart Brand’s summaries and audio downloads or podcasts of the talks are free to the public; Long Now members can view HD video of the Seminars and comment on them. Listen to the Audio of Sander van der ...4 weeks ago -
Sander van der Leeuw’s “The Archaeology of Innovation”
The Long Now Blog —
Authority: 584
History of Innovation The development of human mental ability can be tracked through the progressive crafting of stone tools, Van der Leeuw explained. First we learned to shape an edge—a line—then the surface, then the whole volume of the tool, then the sophisticated sequence required to make a superb spear ...4 weeks ago -
Blogs Noted: The Long Now, Athleta Chi, Jennifer Howard, Shenandoah Breakdown, Maira Kalman
Madam Mayo —
Authority: 120
Athleta ChiCartwheels o chi.Maira KalmanDrawings combined with story and the wry sense of humor.Google Earth BlogFor cybertravelers.The Long NowAnd its reeeeeally long!Jennifer HowardExcellent writers blog.Shenandoah BreakdownBy poets Heather Davis and Jose Padua.More anon.P.S. Please note Madam Mayo Blogs new ...4 weeks ago -
Long Now Gifts for the Holidays
The Long Now Blog —
Authority: 584
We have updated our online store with some new items for the holiday season… Brian Eno’s 77 Million Paintings is a generative art piece that will take thousands of years to fully take in – the software slowly layers and combines several hundred original paintings in an ever-evolving kaleidoscopic ...4 weeks ago -
Buffet’s Big Bet Update – Year 1
The Long Now Blog —
Authority: 584
It took a while to get all the numbers crunched, but the first year’s results from the Long Bet with the highest prize are in. Over a year ago Warren Buffet challenged the managers of several funds-of-funds to outperform the S&P 500 over a 10 year period. A one million dollar charitable donation is on ...4 weeks ago
