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The Clock of the Long Now : Time and Responsibility

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A thought-provoking guide for the practical use of long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in and out of sight.

How do we make long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare? Discipline in thought allows freedom. One needs the space and reliability to predict continuity to have the confidence not to be afraid of revolutions.

Taking the time to think of the future is more essential now than ever, as culture accelerates beyond its ability to be measured Probable things are vastly outnumbered by countless near-impossible eventualities. Reality is statistically forced to be extraordinary; fiction is not allowed this freedom

The Clock of the Long Now is a potent book that combines the chronicling of fantastic technology with equally visionary philosophical inquiry.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780465007806
  • ISBN-10: 0465007805
  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • Publish Date: April 2000
  • Dimensions: 8.02 x 5.34 x 0.56 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
  • Page Count: 208

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