Here’s a great comic strip by Tom Gauld: See also: Das Rad. (Sent in by Mark Watkins, via BoingBoing) , Original article Go to the feed source of this article Go to LongNow.org This article appeared on TheLongNow.org and the author and/or the publisher are to be credited explicitly for the content. Alphaverse.com is not [...]

The Long Now Foundation’s monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking Richard Rhodes on “Twilight of the Bombs” TICKETS Tuesday September 21, 02010 at 7:30pm Herbst Theater on Van Ness Long Now Members can reserve 2 seats, join today! &#8226 General Tickets $10 About this Seminar: Pulitzer-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Dark Sun, [...]

Now and When: Installation detail for Proof by Margaret Tedesco & Matt Borruso The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery is hosting a series of conversations about time in conjunction with their current show Now and When. On Wednesday August 18th, Alexander Rose will join Jeannene Przyblyski of the San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets in [...]

The usual “digital dark age” stories we see are the ones where people lose data because a platform obsolesces.  Business Week is running an interesting story about a computer platform that has refused to obsolesce, and it is the people who are leaving it behind – The Mainframe.  It turns out that there are still [...]

Cosmic Life The pace of astronomic discovery, said the Astronomer Royal, keeps increasing with the constant improvement in our sensing technology. The recent discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe (dark energy) revolutionized cosmology, and with the launch of the Kepler Telescope in 2009, we are beginning to detect and study Earth-sized planets around [...]

Philip Zimbardo’s talk on the Secret Powers of Time wonderfully illustrated in pseudo-realtime by RSA animate. (found via caterina.net) , Original article Go to the feed source of this article Go to LongNow.org This article appeared on TheLongNow.org and the author and/or the publisher are to be credited explicitly for the content. Alphaverse.com is not [...]

During his Seminar, Jesse Schell recommended a number of books and other resources that have informed his conception of the Gamepocalypse.  Here’s a list of the books for the curious: Authenticity, by James H. Gilmore and B. Joseph Pine II Finite and Infinite Games, by James P. Carse The Singularity is Near, by Ray Kurzweil [...]