Long Now Foundation Cultivates Long-Term Thinking: Decoding Civilization-Scale Context from Past and Future
The Long Now Foundation presents ‘Long Now Ideas,’ a living library of long-term thinking that compiles stories and concepts from the ancient past and distant future to provide the civilization-scale context needed to adopt a long view. This platform features articles such as Stewart Brand’s ‘Infrastructure: The Essential Art of Civilization,’ Josh Berson’s ‘Culture: On Meaning,’ and Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler’s ‘Infrastructure: Anatomy of an AI System,’ which delve deeply into the functioning of civilizations and the structure of AI.
The ‘Pace Layers framework’ is introduced as a tool for understanding how and why civilizations work. This framework offers the perspective that our responsibility to the far future requires us to heed our deep past (‘the long now’) and to consider the entire Earth as ‘the big here.’
Furthermore, the challenges of digital storage versus digital preservation, termed the ‘Digital Dark Age,’ are highlighted with articles like Rick Prelinger’s ‘No Film Left Unscanned.’ Fundamental themes such as life, intelligence, and consciousness are also examined through a long-term lens in pieces like Lynn Rothschild’s ‘Lynn Rothschild Takes the Long View’ and Blaise Agüera y Arcas’s ‘Life, Intelligence, and Consciousness: A Functional Perspective.’
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