Long Now Foundation’s ‘Ideas’: A Living Library for Civilizational Sustainability
The Long Now Foundation’s ‘Long Now Ideas’ serves as a living library of thought, drawing from the ancient past and distant future to provide the civilization-scale context necessary for taking a long view. This platform delves into a diverse range of topics, from infrastructure and culture to technology and contemporary challenges like the ‘Digital Dark Age.’
Featured content includes Stewart Brand’s ‘The Essential Art of Civilization,’ and ‘Anatomy of an AI System’ by Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler. Key frameworks such as ‘Pace Layers’ for understanding how civilizations function and evolve are presented, alongside the concept of ‘The Long Now’—our responsibility to the far future—and ‘The Big Here,’ which redefines ‘here’ as the entire Earth.
Discussions on ‘No Film Left Unscanned’ by Rick Prelinger highlight the fragility of digital heritage, contrasting the ease of digital storage with the difficulty of digital preservation. Furthermore, explorations in neural media, like ‘Life, Intelligence, and Consciousness: A Functional Perspective’ by Blaise Agüera y Arcas and ‘The Inheritance of Dreams’ by Patrick Dowd, prompt re-examinations of the future of intelligence and humanity.
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