Long Now: Julia Watson - The Floating Islands of Al Tahla (clip)
Very cool constructions.
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Very cool constructions.
By now we take for granted overriding the evolutionary programming of our bodies (e.g. reproduction), cognitive biases are indicating where we need to do that for our brains.
Very good conversation between Rob Reid and Stewart Brand.
Another really great Long Now talk - I'm definitely a believer!
"We want a temporary use permit for the clock, eventually -- 10,000-year temporary use permit."!
https://en.tiny.ted.com/talks/stewart_brand_on_the_long_now
Not long now?
Can't wait to visit this...
Tim Ferriss's Long Now talk from 02011.
A Long Now talk based on Steven Pinker's book The Better Angels of Our Nature and the counter-intuitive fact that we're living in the least violent period of history.
Lawrence Lessig with an excellent Long Now talk on money in politics.
Cory Doctorow giving a Long Now talk on trusting our computers to do what we want.
Bruce Sterling poetically throwing some cold water on the singularity at the Long Now. "the singularity is a place where matters that would be of great importance and interest to futurists become impossible to write about" "the idea that technology is being built too fast for straight people to comprehend ...kind of lacks a business model"
A Long Now talk by Michael Pollan on the past and future of agriculture.
Andy Weir and Peter Schwartz talking about The Martian and real-life missions to Mars.
A Long Now seminar by Sam Harris, after the release of The End of Faith in 02005.