My parachute malfunction was statisically inevitable. So besides having a hell of a good time skydiving, I learned three visceral-level lessons. ![]() ![]() “What people mean by the word technology is the stuff that doesn’t really work yet.” People call it change, and rather than yearn for it, they brace themselves against its force. Now that we have progress so rapid that it can be observed from year to year, no one calls it progress. The aggregate value of other users was so great that they could not afford to miss the boat. Metcalfe’s Law explains why 50 million people had to get on the Internet in just a few years. “We are moving from a world in which the big eat the small,” remarked Klaus Schwab, head of the World Economic Forum, “to a world in which the fast eat the slow.” offers hope, the second extends a warning.” Kairos is the time of cleverness, chronos the time of wisdom.Īccording to a rule of thumb among engineers, any tenfold quantitative change is a qualitative change, a fundamentally new situation rather than a simple extrapolation. The ancient Greeks distinguished two kinds of time, “kairos (opportunity or the propitious moment) and chronos (eternal or ongoing time). Luck you cannot do much about speed you can. The deer frozen in the headlights, the driver frozen at the wheel with no time to brake or swerve-both are doomed by speed and bad luck. “We are the first generation that influences global climate, and the last generation to escape the consequences.” What do we owe the future humans? Existence, skills, and a not-bad world. We owe the past humans our existence, our skills, and our not-bad world. The future has been shrinking by one year per year for my entire life.ĭouglas Carlston noted that the institution to maintain this project will be as much of a design challenge to last one hundred centuries as the Clock or the Library. Now, thirty years later, they still talk about what will happen by the year 2000. When I was a child, people used to talk about what would happen by the year 2000. The main problems might be stated, How do we make long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare? How do we make the taking of long-term responsibility inevitable? What a prime subject for vapid truisms and gaseous generalities adding up to the world’s most boring sermon. Why would anyone build a Clock inside a mountain with the hope that it will ring for 10,000 years? Part of the answer: just so people will ask this question, and having asked it, prompt themselves to conjure with notions of generations and millennia.Time and Responsibility. ![]() Meantime the mountain in Texas is being readied. The Clock is now being machined and assembled in California and Seattle. Long Now board member Kevin Kelly wrote about “ The Clock in the Mountain” in 2011. The clock is currently being built into a Texas mountain. …I’m building a clock that will last for 10,000 years. I wanted to to build something that gave us a sense of that connection and that’s how I started thinking about the clock. I wanted a symbol of the future, in the same way that the pyramids are the symbol of the past. In “ The Clock of the Long Now” by Public Record, inventor Danny Hillis of The Long Now Foundation explains how the idea originated for a 10,000 Year Clock and what the clock is meant to symbolize.
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