Long Now Foundation Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Some #EarthDay listening: our podcast with Kim Stanley Robinson on climate action and his novel, the Ministry for the Future. https://soundcloud.com/longnow/climate-futures-beyond-02022

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Are we living to the rhythm of the wrong clock? Jenny Odell's SAVING TIME explores the limits of rigid, industrial "clock time" and how we need to reconsider our relationship with time so we can recover an appetite for the future. Watch her Long Now Talk: https://t.co/Dz0GQliQeY

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Yet our commitment to imagining collapse and the ways out of it — can never rest. As Lauren Olamina, the protagonist of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower notes, novels alone cannot save us — but they can be vital tools for imagination and survival. https://t.co/rLIrNorUEz

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Released a century ago this year, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land serves as a monument of modernism and a tribute to a wide swath of classical and medieval myth. https://t.co/TYtDIERmvr

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Tonight at 7 Pacific: @ryanqnorth joins us at The Interval to discuss his book How to Invent Everything and the technological and implicit knowledge underpinning modern civilization. Watch the stream at https://t.co/Z9v0j0BzrJ https://t.co/LionCxXZiM

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In 01920, Arthur Eddington, a pioneering early astrophysicist, gave a speech on "The Internal Constitution of the Stars." In the speech, he conjectured that humanity could one day harness what he called “subatomic energy,” noting that its supply “is well-nigh inexhaustible.” https://t.co/Qc8wcQkHml

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@MichaelESmith Hi Michael! Great question. We've had a variety of speakers from the world of archaeology that focus on long-term changes. Here are two examples: Michael Frachetti on the silk road: https://t.co/dn6WLQsScU Monica Smith on the long history of cities: https://t.co/6PpIjTCvmh

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A quick demonstration of the Long Now and the Big Here in the context of the human experience. (from R. J. Blin-Stoyle’s Eureka! Physics of Particles, Matter and the Universe) https://t.co/7JYMapznby

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Odell "hates" the bi-annual time change, citing Michael Downing's Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time as the definitive (and very funny) history of that policy choice.

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Stewart Brand is co-founder and president of The Long Now Foundation and co-founder of Revive & Restore. His books include The Clock of the Long Now, How Buildings Learn and Whole Earth Discipline.