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Stewart Brand is an American writer, environmentalist, and founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and the Long Now Foundation. He has been a leading advocate for long-term thinking and sustainable innovation.
Known for: The Long Now: Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Term World
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The Long Now: Long-Term Thinking for a Short-Term World
A collection of essays and reflections exploring the concept of long-term thinking and responsibility for the future, inspired by the Long Now Foundation’s mission to foster slower, deeper, and more durable perspectives in a fast-paced world.
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The Roots of Short-Termism
Modern culture did not choose short-term thinking consciously—it evolved into it through technology, economics, and politics that reward immediate results. In the book, several contributors trace this history back to the industrial and information revolutions, when speed became synonymous with progr...
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The Mission of the Long Now Foundation
When we founded the Long Now Foundation, our aim was to create cultural mechanisms that fostered responsibility across millennia. The name itself proposes a new scale for thinking: the 'long now' stretches the moment we inhabit into a 20,000-year frame—10,000 years back, 10,000 years forward. Inside...
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Stewart Brand is an American writer, environmentalist, and founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and the Long Now Foundation. He has been a leading advocate for long-term thinking and sustainable innovation.
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