Long Now Foundation Presents ‘Ideas’: A Living Library for Civilization-Scale Thinking
The Long Now Foundation has launched ‘Ideas — LONG NOW,’ a dynamic collection designed to foster long-term thinking by drawing on contexts from the deep past and the distant future. This initiative serves as a living library of concepts and stories aimed at providing the civilization-scale perspective necessary for taking the long view.
The collection explores foundational ideas like the ‘Pace Layers’ framework for understanding how civilizations function, the concept of ‘the long now’ emphasizing our responsibility to the far future, and ‘the big here’ which defines our current locus as the entire Earth. It also features explorations into critical topics such as the ‘Digital Dark Age’ and the challenges of digital preservation, alongside analyses of AI systems and the functional perspective of life, intelligence, and consciousness.
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