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The Long Now blog is featuring the bet between myself and Matt on URL longevity. Just being mentioned on that site gives me a warm glow.
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A Whole Lotta Nothing: My Webstock Talk: Lessons from a 40 year old (now with transcript)
Matt has transcribed the notes from his excellent Webstock talk. I highly recommend giving this a read.
Webstock ‘12: Matt Haughey - Lessons for a 40 year old on Vimeo
I really enjoyed Matt’s talk from Webstock. I know some people thought it might be a bit of a downer but I actually found it very inspiring.
dawdlr
A twitter for the Long Now from Russell Davies. You can submit an answer to the question “What are you doing, you know, more generally?” to:
Dawdlr, c/o RIG, 32-38 Scrutton Street, London, EC2A 4RQ
Escaping the Digital Dark Age
Stewart Brand wrote this twelve years ago: it’s more relevant than ever in today’s cloud-worshipping climate.
I’d like to think that it’s ironic that I’m linking to The Wayback Machine because the original URL for this essay is dead. But it isn’t ironic, it’s horrific.
100 Year Starship Study
Now this looks like a fascinating project …and there’s a symposium happening in Florida at the end of September with Jill Tartar, Stewart Brand and more. I want to go to there.
10,000 Year Clock
Jeff Bezos has put together a little site to give some background on The Clock Of The Long Now: soon to be open to visitors.
LukeW | An Event Apart: All Our Yesterdays
Luke’s notes from my talk about long-term thinking and online preservation at An Event Apart in Boston.
This Place is Not a Place of Honor on Vimeo
A demo reel for the proposed solution to a very, very, very long term problem.
Brian Eno - The Big Here and the Long Now | DIGITALSOULS.COM | New Media Art | Philosophy | Culture
Brian Eno’s original essay on the origins of The Long Now Foundation. It is ten years old—a long time on the web and 1% of a millennium.
Humans are capable of a unique trick: creating realities by first imagining them, by experiencing them in their minds. When Martin Luther King said “I have a dream…” , he was inviting others to dream it with him. Once a dream becomes shared in that way, current reality gets measured against it and then modified towards it. As soon as we sense the possibility of a more desirable world, we begin behaving differently – as though that world is starting to come into existence, as though, in our minds at least, we’re already there. The dream becomes an invisible force which pulls us forward. By this process it starts to come true. The act of imagining something makes it real.
Long Bets - The original URL for this prediction (www.longbets.org/601) will no longer be available in eleven years.
This is my prediction. If you think it’s wrong, challenge it. We shall then partake in a wager.
Long Now image - Photos: The 10,000 Year Clock - CNET News
Pictures of some prototypes of the clock of the Long Now.