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2:13 Jermiah O'Brien Engine Room longnow 412 views 1 year ago Shot on the 65th Anniversary cruise, this is preview of what people will see for the Mechanicrawl.
1:15:28 Rusty Schweickart, The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years, SALT tak longnow 861 views 1 year ago The epitome of long-term thinking is to take seriously the protection of the Earth from massive asteroid impacts, which in the past have extincted as much as 90% of life on...
1:44:00 Ray Kurzweil - Kurzweil's Law - Long Now Seminars About Long Term Thinking longnow 1,529 views 1 year ago This is one of those "What if he is right !!?" talks. Ray Kurzweil makes a graphic and persuasive case that a law of accelerating returns has been operative for eons as we...
1:18:53 James P. Carse, Religious War In Light of the Infinite Game, SALT talk longnow 1,988 views 1 year ago Behind current headlines is the loom of religious war. Behind THAT is the "infinite game" of religion itself. They contradict each other. They meet in this lecture. The...
1:14:25 Jared Diamond - How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed - Long Now Foundation longnow 10,958 views 1 year ago Jared Diamond articulately spelled out how his best-selling book, COLLAPSE, took shape. At first it was going to be a book of 18 chapters chronicling 18 collapses of onc...
2:01:04 Ken Dychtwald, The Consequences of Human Life Extension, SALT talk longnow 454 views 1 year ago Dazzling speaker KEN DYCHTWALD--- author of the books Age Wave and Age Power--- adds to The Long Now Foundation's Seminars About Long-term Thinking. Longer life is changin...
1:21:25 Freeman Dyson with George and Esther Dyson, The Difficulty of Looking Far Ahead longnow 1,053 views 1 year ago Mathematician, physicist, essayist Freeman Dyson has been at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since 1953. His books include DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE (1979), IN...
1:20:06 Rob Neuwirth, The 21st-century Medieval City - Seminars About Long Term Thinking longnow 634 views 1 year ago For his talk "The 21st-century Medieval City," Robert Neuwirth took an overflow audience to "the cities of tomorrow," the developing-world shanty-towns where a billion peo...
1:21:02 Daniel Janzen - Third World Conservation: It's ALL Gardening - Long Now longnow 415 views 1 year ago Thanks in a serious way to Daniel Janzen, an essential part of the Costa Rican economy has become field biology, eco-tourism, and the protection of mega-biodiversity. The ...
1:18:21 Spencer Beebe, Very Long-term Very Large-scale Biomimicry, SALT talk longnow 160 views 1 year ago Trained as an economist, then a Peace Corps volunteer, young Spencer Beebe rose fast in the Nature Conservancy to head the international program. He left there to found Co...

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Date Joined Feb 13, 2006

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