From amara at amara.com Tue Nov 4 14:54:37 2003 From: amara at amara.com (Amara Graps) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:54:37 +0200 Subject: [Exi-bay-announce] Eno in 1st Long-term Thinking seminar of the Long Now Foundation Message-ID: (I saw a reference to this on the Boing-boing site. I would go to this if I could be in Bay area at this time. -- Amara) The next speaker, November 14, will be Brian Eno. "On Nov. 14 Brian Eno launches in San Francisco Long Now's series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking, free to the public. At 7pm at Fort Mason every second Friday, the series will include futurist Peter Schwartz, Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart, biologist Daniel Janzen, Laurie Anderson, Danny Hillis, George Dyson, and Paul Hawken." ====================== The Long Now Foundation http://www.longnow.org/ The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996** to develop Clock and "Library" projects as well as to become the seed of a very long term cultural institution. It has been nearly 10,000 years since the end of the last ice age and the beginnings of civilization. Progress lately is often measured on a "faster/cheaper" scale. The Long Now Foundation seeks to promote "slower/better" thinking and to foster creativity in the framework of the next 10,000 years. ====================== http://www.longnow.org/10klibrary/Seminars.htm The scheduled speakers so far are as follows: 2nd Fridays in 02003 Nov. 14 - Brian Eno "The Long Now" Dec. 12 - Peter Schwartz "The Art of the Really Long View" 2nd Fridays in 02004 Jan. 9 - George Dyson "There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing" Feb. 13 - James Dewar "Long-term Policy Analysis" (Dewar is head of RAND's new Pardee Center on very long-term policy---35 to 200 years) Mar. 12 - Rusty Schweickart "The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years" Apr. 9 - Daniel Janzen "It's ALL Gardening" (Janzen is the famed preservation biologist based in Costa Rica) May 14 - David Rumsey "Mapping Time" (see his dazzling http://www.davidrumsey.com) ====================== http://www.longnow.org/about/about.htm The Long Now Foundation GUIDELINES: (for a long-lived, long-valuable institution) 1. Serve the long view (and the long viewer). 2. Foster responsibility. 3. Reward patience. 4. Mind mythic depth. 5. Ally with competition. 6. Take no sides. 7. Leverage longevity. -- *********************************************************************** Amara Graps, PhD Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario, INAF - ARTOV, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere, 100, I-00133 Roma, ITALIA tel: +39-06-4993-4384 |fax: +39-06-4993-4383 Amara.Graps at ifsi.rm.cnr.it | http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/dustgroup/~graps ************************************************************************ "If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives and give them carte blanche." --Brian Eno From spike.jones at lmco.com Tue Nov 4 18:10:36 2003 From: spike.jones at lmco.com (Jones, Spike) Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:10:36 -0800 Subject: [Exi-bay-announce] Eno in 1st Long-term Thinking seminar of the Long Now Foundation Message-ID: <47BF60A2A5AB3C4898B67142F206446948D6DF@EMSS01M15.us.lmco.com> Amara wrote: http://www.longnow.org/about/about.htm The Long Now Foundation GUIDELINES: (for a long-lived, long-valuable institution) 1. Serve the long view (and the long viewer). 2. Foster responsibility. 3. Reward patience. 4. Mind mythic depth. 5. Ally with competition. 6. Take no sides. 7. Leverage longevity. As a hard core minarcho-capitalist, that number 5 makes me squirm. Their site doesn't really explain what they mean. Amara, do you know? The terms ally and competitor seem opposites to me. Shall we take the discussion to the main extrolist? spike From amara at amara.com Thu Nov 6 10:26:30 2003 From: amara at amara.com (Amara Graps) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 12:26:30 +0200 Subject: [Exi-bay-announce] Eno in 1st Long-term Thinking seminar of the Long Now Foundation In-Reply-To: <47BF60A2A5AB3C4898B67142F206446948D6DF@EMSS01M15.us.lmco.com> References: <47BF60A2A5AB3C4898B67142F206446948D6DF@EMSS01M15.us.lmco.com> Message-ID: Dear Spike, >Amara wrote: > >http://www.longnow.org/about/about.htm > >The Long Now Foundation GUIDELINES: (for a long-lived, >long-valuable institution) > >1. Serve the long view (and the long viewer). > >2. Foster responsibility. > >3. Reward patience. > >4. Mind mythic depth. > >5. Ally with competition. > >6. Take no sides. > >7. Leverage longevity. > > >As a hard core minarcho-capitalist, that number 5 makes me >squirm. Their site doesn't really explain what they >mean. >Amara, do you know? No, my first guess that it is about leveraging, too, but I don't know honestly. The answer is likely in one or some of these essays at their site: http://www.longnow.org/timelinks/Essays.html (nice selection of essays, anyway, to browse through) but I'd need some time to find it. If you find it first, let us know! >The terms ally and competitor >seem opposites to me. Shall we take the discussion to the >main extrolist? If you'd like.... :-) > >spike > -- Amara Graps, PhD Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI) Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Adjunct Assistant Professor Astronomy, AUR, Roma, ITALIA Amara.Graps at ifsi.rm.cnr.it