RT @Frankiemon: This was a real surprise when it landed in my podcatcher. Ryan is witty, well researched and insightful as he discusses how humanity is often REALLY BAD at inventing mundane everyday things. https://twitter.com/longnow/status/1630978359051304960
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RT @SeldonCrisisPod: #KimStanleyRobinson just made an illuminating appearance on the #SeldonCrisis podcast. I made sure to link to all of his great @longnow talks in the show notes! @stewartbrand @kevin2kelly https://www.withfanfare.com/p/seldon-crisis/future-visions-with-kim-stanley-robinson
What would it take to rebuild civilization from scratch? @ryanqnorth’s Long Now Talk explores the technological knowledge underpinning modern society. It’s a practical guide for stranded time travellers & anyone who wants to know how to invent everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3eKMg57MbI
RT @arbesman: Almost a decade ago, I wrote an essay about the wonders of Long Data: https://www.wired.com/2013/01/forget-big-data-think-long-data/ I am still fascinated by the kinds of datasets that span centuries so I plan on using this thread as a placeholder for ones that I find. Please feel free to follow along.
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The passage of time is constant. Our perception of it is not. Jenny Odell’s SAVING TIME explores how culture has shaped how we see time, contorting ourselves to match an industrial pace. Join us in 1 week for a talk w/ Jenny Odell on how we can discover a life beyond the clock.
RT @szpak: “Unless digital information is ceaselessly migrated from one fading medium to another new one, it quickly ceases to be accessible. Today, any information stored only on a floppy disk is essentially gone.” Life itself is ceaseless migration of information, care and entelechy. https://twitter.com/longnow/status/1630251769824681989
RT @longnow: “This problem of long-term digital storage seems a crucial hurdle for any civilization trying to act generationally. How could a society think in terms of centuries unless there was a reliable way to store its knowledge over centuries?” – @kevin2kelly https://longnow.org/ideas/very-long-term-backup/
RT @kevin2kelly: 15 years ago I wrote a short piece on Very Long Term Storage of information. Stuff like backups and archives for hundreds and thousands of years. (I now call this “movage” instead of storage, cause you need to keep moving it to last.) https://longnow.org/ideas/very-long-term-backup/
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The map of humanity isn’t settled — not now, not ever. Our Talk with @paragkhanna is now available as a podcast. Take a journey into the past and the future of human migration, with an eye towards what new human geographies may form in coming centuries: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/parag-khanna-why-mobility-is-destiny/id186908455
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“This problem of long-term digital storage seems a crucial hurdle for any civilization trying to act generationally. How could a society think in terms of centuries unless there was a reliable way to store its knowledge over centuries?” – @kevin2kelly https://longnow.org/ideas/very-long-term-backup/
