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The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility (1999) (edit title/settings)

The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer

by Stewart Brand (Author) (edit contributors)

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Using the Millennial Clock as a paradigm for the Long Now, Stewart Brand offers a practical introduction to the concept of long-term responsibility "For minds trapped in the ever-tightening time spiral of techno-capitalist progress, where fame is fifteen minutes and the future is this... read more

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Time and Responsibility.What a prime subject for vapid truism and gaseous generalities adding up to the world's most boring sermon.

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  1. Stewart Brand (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 046504512X
Page Count: 208

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