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Dec 22 2005

The Clock of the Long Now

Posted by: Robert Sandberg in Ecology, Philosophy, Science

10,000 Year Clock of the Long Now

The best way to introduce the clock of the Long Now? Here’s a quote from the book:

Whether or not a grand version of the Clock eventually happens, the world continues to happen, and it happens to be in a new scale of trouble these days. Nobody can save the world, but any of us can help set in motion a self-saving world - if we are willing to engage the process of centuries, because that is where the real power is.

Steward Brand, editor. The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility, New York: Basic Books, 1999.
And you can visit the Long Now Foundation website.

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