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The Clock Of The Long Now

Paperback • 1999 • English

The Clock Of The Long Now

By Stewart Brand

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About the book

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...Show more

Social forecasting, future studies
Astronomy, space and time
Time (chronology), time systems and standards

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ISBN

9780465007806

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

The Clock Of The Long Now

Format

Paperback

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