Brian Eno and Finn Williams in conversation Planning for the longer now

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We’re asleep to the future -- and Alexander Rose en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Rose_(author) wants us to wake up. Rose wants us to wake up. Rose is the executive director of the Long Now Foundation, a San Francisco based collective dedicated to fostering long-term thinking. And I mean really long -- Rose and company, which includes musician Brian Eno www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFbtFxgwZkA and ‘Wired’ magazine cofounder Kevil Kelly -- are pondering the next ten thousand years of humanity, longer the civilizatin has so far existed. The group holds talks and conferences, and it even has its own bar in San Francisco’s Fort Mason -- the Interval at Long Now, where, true to is focus on time, you can get six different versions of an Old-Fashioned. It holds a series of long bets -- wagers that will play out over the course of decades, like one betting that the human population will be smaller in 2060 than it is today. The Long Now Foundation is building a library of human knowledge meant to be achieved over the next ten millennia, with much of its placed on “Rosetta disks” -- palm-sized disks of solid nickel that contain thirteen thousand pages of information engraved in a microscopic font. `Page 164

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