What is Our Responsibility to the Far Future? Long Now Foundation Launches Living Library for Civilizational Thinking
Why should we turn our attention to the distant future? The Long Now Foundation has launched ‘Long Now Ideas,’ a living library dedicated to long-term thinking. It draws on insights from the ancient past and the far future to provide civilization-scale context.
The library features diverse articles, including “Fashion: I’ve Got to Admit, It’s Getting Better” by Stefan Sagmeister, “Infrastructure: The Essential Art of Civilization” by Stewart Brand, and “Anatomy of an AI System” by Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler. These contributions aim to foster deeper context and sustainable solutions for contemporary challenges.
The concept of ‘the long now’ posits our responsibility to heed our deep past for the sake of the far future. ‘The big here’ emphasizes the need to perceive ‘here’ as the entire Earth. The library also sheds light on modern issues like the challenges of digital preservation in the ‘Digital Dark Age.’
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