Boston Seaport: built despite #climate warnings, now one of the world's most imperiled neighborhoods. Join us for _Inundation District_ screening w/ director @davabel.bsky.social . Sun Nov 23, 1:30pm at Cambridge Foundry. Free tix: lnb-inundation-district.eventbrite.com. Be part of the conversation!
Come join Long Now Boston and Porter Square Books for a fascinating evening discussing coevolution, paleontology and more! www.longnowboston.org/events/when-...
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Come to our Long Now Boston pub night, tomorrow! Friday Dec 20, 02024 @7:30pm, at Paddy's Lunch in North Cambridge. Meet interesting Long Now thinkers, have a drink and talk about the Big Questions! Like & repost if you're interested.
Thanks to the Boston Globe for publishing our recent letter on #climatechange #geoengineering research. "Research is worth pursuing, but these are not easy fixes." #longnowboston www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/25/o...
Thanks to Bob Sprague of YourArlington for reposting our #LongNowBoston letter on #geoengineering, "Research is worth pursuing, but these are not easy fixes:" www.yourarlington.com/component/ea...
"Continuity is made partly of exploration, but most of the work is maintenance. That’s the strongest argument for protecting Nature, because Nature is the most enormous and consequential self-maintaining thing we know." - Stewart Brand, on elements of durable civilization:
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Beautiful visualization!
For fossil and history enthusiasts, you'll love this new book from Caroline Winterer, eminent Stanford historian.
A compelling story, of fossils and culture intertwined, exploring America's long and complicated relationship with the idea of deep time!
Great intro to Long Now and deep time thinking!
Join us tomorrow at Noon Pacific Time for the virtual premiere of our next Long Now Talk: a conversation with
@romankrznaric.bsky.social & @kateraworth.bsky.social about What Doughnut Economics Can Learn From History
Watch the premiere with Roman and Kate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugUB...
Not sure if I've tweeted before but here is the @longnow video of the fabulous Judy Wajcman talking about time poverty amidst digital abundance. @Interval:...
The Whole Earth Catalog and its descendants are newly available online through the Whole Earth Index: "The Lasting Whole Earth Catalog" @Jacobkupp @longnow @stewartbrand.bsky.social @kevinkelly.bsky.social @archive.org (Plus- Jon Postel)
Treasure tools: roughlydaily.com/2023/10/17/w...
The Long Now Foundation have started the Rosetta Project, to preserve knowledge etched onto nickel disks
rosettaproject.org?ref=longnow....
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📄 Shining a Light on the Digital Dark Age
by @AdrienneEve at @longnow
Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades. How might we secure our data so that it survives for generations?
#DigitalAge #DataLost
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Danny Hillis giving an update on the 10,000 year clock at #longnowboston summer picnic. Great time and so many thought-provoking, inspiring conversations!