Long Now Explores Civilization’s Long View: Responsibility to Past, Present, and Future
The Long Now Foundation presents a ‘living library’ of ideas aimed at providing civilization-scale, long-term context. This collection spans concepts from Stewart Brand’s ‘The Essential Art of Civilization’ to ‘Anatomy of an AI System’ by Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler, offering diverse perspectives.
The ‘Pace Layers framework’ is introduced as a tool for understanding how civilizations function and evolve. It connects insights from the deep past with responsibilities to the distant future, asserting that ‘our responsibility to the far future is to heed our deep past.’ The concept of a ‘Digital Dark Age’ highlights the modern challenge of easy digital storage versus difficult digital preservation.
Themes such as Lynn Rothschild’s ‘Long View’ in space, Blaise Agüera y Arcas’s ‘Life, Intelligence, and Consciousness: A Functional Perspective,’ Julie Momméja’s ‘Time, Bits, and Nickel,’ and Patrick Dowd’s ‘The Inheritance of Dreams’ delve into long-term considerations of science, technology, and human existence.
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