Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
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/08/against-political-freedom/. 95. Yarvin, “A Formalist Manifesto.” CHAPTER 10: SILICON VALLEY COLONIALISM 1. Paul Romer, “A Theory of History, with an Application,” The Long Now Foundation, May 18, 2009, https://longnow.org/seminars/02009/may/18/theory-history-application/. 2. Paul Romer, “Escape from the Great Distress,” Issues in Science and
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Over by Machines of Loving Grace (San Francisco: Communication Company, 1967). 30. Quoted in Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture, 128. 31. “Bio… Stewart Brand,” The Long Now Foundation, http://sb.longnow.org/SB_homepage/Bio.html. 32. Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture, 135. 33. Michael Schrage, “Hacking Away at the Future,” Washington Post
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
by Fred Turner · 31 Aug 2006 · 339pp · 57,031 words
instance, he published a book on the ways buildings change over time (How Buildings Learn), and in 1995 he [ 206 ] Chapter 6 helped found the Long Now Foundation, a society devoted to building a clock that would keep time for ten thousand years, so as to encourage humans to focus on the long
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the integration of information technology into the firm. See Powell, “Capitalist Firm in the Twenty-First Century,” esp. 40 – 61. 66. Ibid., 68. 67. The Long Now Foundation is still active at this writing. Founding members included computer designer Danny Hillis, Kevin Kelly, Esther Dyson, musician Brian Eno, Peter Schwartz, and others. In
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and the Whole Earth group, 139; Kesey as role model, 65; and Learning Conferences, 181– 83; linking of information technologies to New Communalist politics, 216; Long Now Foundation, 206, 285n67; as a manager, 79, 89 –90; The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT, 178 – 81; and the Merry Pranksters, 61– 62; military
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Lockheed Missiles and Space (LockheedMartin), 150 LOGO programming language, 111 “Long Boom, The” (Schwartz and Leyden), 233 –34 Long Hunter, 87– 88, 101, 204, 245 Long Now Foundation, 206, 285n67 Los Alamos National Laboratory, 18, 176, 197, 198 Lotus Development Corporation, 171 Lotus 1-2-3, 171 Lovins, Amory, 186 LSD, 49, 60
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
by Meredith Broussard · 19 Apr 2018 · 245pp · 83,272 words
graduate student named Danny Hillis showed up to Minsky’s house with a radiation detector in his pocket. (Hillis, a supercomputer inventor, now runs the Long Now Foundation with Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand; the foundation is devoted to building a mechanical clock that will run for ten thousand years in a
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–160 Libraries, 96–97 Lightoller, Charles, 116 Lincoln, Abraham, 78 LinkedIn, 158 Linux, 24–25 Lipton, Zachary, 114 Literacy, technological, 21 Long, Milton, 117–118 Long Now Foundation, 73 Lord, Walter, 117–119 Loughner, Jared Lee, 19 Lovelace, Ada, 76 LSD, 81 Lucas, George, 70 Machine intelligence, determining, 37–38 Machine language, 24
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by Scott Rosenberg · 2 Jan 2006 · 394pp · 118,929 words
news headlines for something entirely different: He entered into a Long Bet about the prospects for artificial intelligence. Long Bets were a project of the Long Now Foundation, a nonprofit organization started by Whole Earth Catalog creator Stewart Brand and a group of digital-age notables as a way to spur discussion and
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chronicled at http://www.longbets.org/1. “radical transformation of the reality”: Kurzweil described his vision of the Singularity in a talk hosted by the Long Now Foundation, San Francisco, September 23, 2005. Video of the event is at http://video.google.com/video play?docid=610691660251309257. “in the short term we always
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underestimate”: Kurzweil, Long Now Foundation talk. “As humans: We are embodied.”: Kapor’s essay accompanying the Long Bet is at http://www.longbets.org/1. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book could not
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by Stewart Brand · 15 Mar 2009 · 422pp · 113,525 words
. Brand, whose previous books include The Media Lab, How Buildings Learn, and The Clock of the Long Now, is the president and cofounder of The Long Now Foundation and cofounder of Global Business Network. He lives with his wife, Ryan Phelan, on a tugboat in San Francisco Bay. PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the
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Hillis came up with an idea to help people think long-term by building a monumental ten-thousand-year clock, I responded by cofounding The Long Now Foundation with him in 1996. “Fostering long-term responsibility” is its mission. The “long now” is defined as the last ten thousand years and the next
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lodged in America’s political throat ever since the project was initiated in 1978. That had nothing to do with why the board of The Long Now Foundation made a site visit in 2002. We just wanted to see what a hole in a Nevada mountain looked like. Long Now’s maypole project
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of a Cell, The (Thomas) Living with Chernobyl (Vinton) Lomborg, Bjørn London, England London, Martin London: The Biography (Ackroyd) Long Emergency, The (Kunstler) Longman, Phillip Long Now Foundation Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Angeles Times Losey, John Love, Stanley Lovelock, James genetic engineering and geoengineering and nuclear power and Lovins, Amory genetic engineering
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by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words
& Kotler 2012, p. 11. 18. Fossil power, guilt-free: Service 2017. 19. Jane Langdale, “Radical Ag: C4 Rice and Beyond,” Seminars About Long-Term Thinking, Long Now Foundation, March 14, 2016. 20. Second Machine Age: Brynjolfsson & McAfee 2016. See also Diamandis & Kotler 2012. 21. Mokyr 2014, p. 88; see also Feldstein 2017; T
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-term view of time in our culture, in 1998 a group of scientists, artists, and business people in the San Francisco Bay area established The Long Now Foundation to promote an alternative conception of time based upon two main questions: “How do we make long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult
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. Linux living standards Lizzio, James R. Llerena, P. Lo, C. P. Lo, Fu-chen location: culture; electronics; employment; hightechnology; industry; see also place; space London Long Now Foundation Lorenz, E. Los Angeles Lovins, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lozano, Beverly Lukasiewicz, J. Lynch, Kevin Lynch, Ray Lyon, David Lyon, Jeff Macdonald, Stuart McGowan
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Schools,” April 2009, available at http://mckinseyonsociety.com/downloads/reports/Education/achievement_gap_report.pdf. 12. Philip K. Howard, “Fixing Broken Government” (seminar for the Long Now Foundation, San Francisco, January 18, 2011). 13. In U.S. dollars at constant prices since 2000. 14. James Q. Wilson, Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and
Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive History's Most Iconic Extinct Creature
by Ben Mezrich · 3 Jul 2017
of a revolution, and no less a tech luminary than Steve Jobs had once likened it to “Google in print.” Brand’s current project, the Long Now Foundation, was no less ambitious. A philanthropic think tank, which Brand had created with computer scientist Danny Hillis, Long Now’s goal was to look forward
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climate change and, 113–14 conservation and, 91–93, 95, 108, 269, 271–72 elephant herd visited by, 206–11 and herpes in elephants, 211 Long Now Foundation of, 91 “Mammoth Plus” by, 269–72 passenger pigeons and, 92–93, 95, 270 physical appearance of, 88, 203 Pleistocene Park and, 116 resurrecting Mammoths
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, 10, 13, 15, 31, 111, 113 Pleistocene Park and, 114–15 Zimov’s manifesto and, 118 liver, 124–25, 128, 130–31, 170, 243–44 Long Now Foundation, 91 Luhan Yang, see Yang, Luhan Lyme disease, 232–37 M McDonald, Stewart, 26, 36, 46 malaria, 19 avian, 271–72 genetically enhanced mosquitoes and
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