The Real Legacy of Stewart Brand w/ Malcolm Harris
Tech Won't Save Us
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The Long Now Foundation
Markof: One of the pieces that is really important, as the book kind of comes to a close, is the long now foundation. This idea of building this ten thousand year clock and like a library associated with it,. That would promote long term thinking, so they say. And i feel like this kind of obsession with long term thinking goes back. Markof: Yet certain ends it becomes really dangerous, right, where you say, oh, well, you know, we can lose 90 % of humanity, because in a thousand years, that ten percent of humanity will create a whole new world.
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