2. human race. It is not unreasonable that we
grapple with problems. But there are tens of
thousands of years in the future. Our
responsibility is to do what we can, learn
what we can, improve the solutions, and pass
them on.
-
Richard Feynman
4. Guidelines for a
Long-lived Institution
• Serve the long view (and the long viewer)
• Foster responsibility
• Reward patience
• Mind mythic depth
• Ally with competition
• Take no sides
• Leverage longevity
5. Board
Danny Hillis Stewart Brand Brian Eno
(The Clock) (The Library) (The Long Now)
Chris Anderson Roger Kennedy
Doug Carlston Kim Polese
Esther Dyson David Rumsey
Mitch Kapor Paul Saffo
Mike Keller Peter Schwartz
Kevin Kelly
- Apologize for being American and Californian\n- Do we have a future? Even the bleakest outlooks show that we do have some future.\n\n
New College, Inspirations like this... Planting new acorns.\n
Protects against scratches, dents\nBut disk is exposed to atmosphere\n
- “California Ideologists”\n- Several of these people can actually be blamed for some of the speeding up of time. \n- Danny Hillis and Thinking Machines built the Connection Machine then the fastest computer on earth. \n- Massively parallel processing still the standard\n
10,000 Year time frame... about the length of modern civilization.\n•Also incidentally the most stable climate time in the known climate history of our planet.\n
Shearing layers...\n- some things must necessarily be fast\n\n
