How many species are there? See more at Long Bets & Men win the World Cup before the Red Sox win the Series? All Species, attempt to catalog all the species in the next 25 years. So, what is the solution? Take a hint from the Ise Shrine, for, as Santayana said: repetition is the only form of permanence that nature achieves.ĭigression not in the book Long Bets - Will the U.S. There are many thousands of 9 track tapes from early NASA history. So, is the solution to make digital copies? Sure, but how do we keep them up to date? FPS has been using word processing for well over 20 years, but, how many years worth of trustee minutes can we gather? (about four so far). Religion and cultural genocide also offed the Mayan library. The description of the clock itself is fascinating for the GEEKy (Graphical Engineers of Experience and Knowledge) among us.īurning Libraries - Alexandria - burned 5 times, 3 by accidents of war and twice by religious bigotry. It permanence relies on being rebuilt every 20 years. (p.35) fashion is seasonal, nature is longer than 10,000 years. Timescales, paces - six of them: fashion, commerce, infrastructure, governance, culture, nature. 'nuff said, see the book for more examples. If the hangover preceded the binge, people would drink much more responsibly. Silly one the one hand, but, very powerful on the other. When the singularity comes in the year 2020 or so, things will be obsolete before they can even be taken out of the box. All technologies gather momentum producing exponential growth rates. The Singularity, a term coined by Vernor Vinge, is the consequence of trends such as Moore's Law, which says the speed of computer chips doubles every 18 months. In a good Zen fashion, you are totally present - be here now. Simple: Kronos is the linear march of time Kairos is those moments in which one looses all sense of time. Kairos and Chronos, first brought to my attention by Chikzent-mahaily in an incredible book called Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (which deserves its own notes page). The sermon is scheduled to be delivered at First Parish of Sudbury, Unitarian Universalist, on February 22nd. These notes are to prepare for a discussion to be help January 15th in order to give our Minister, Katie Lee Crane, enough grist to create a sermon based on the Clock of the Long Now. How do we think about the long future? Danny Hillis, creator of the clock, was motivated by the sense that "the future was a truck slamming on its brakes right in front of me". We, as humans have been around for about 10,000 years if you count the first clay shards that we used to brew beer. While there is no way I can capture the reasons behind building the clock, I can say what captures my imagination - that we, as humans, will be able to sustain ourselves and enough of the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part. Washington near Ely, Nevada and the Great Basin National Park. It is an actual clock being built inside on Mt. The Clock of the Long Now will keep accurate time for 10,000 years. The Clock of the Long Now Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World Slowest Computer The book was the subject of a Sermon at First Parish of Sudbury, Unitarian Universalist in February, 2004. The Clock of the Long Now See Also: Book Notes
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