Echoing Dale Dougherty, he says the Web has become the leading platform for harnessing collective intelligence. Wikipedia is a virtual city. Connected smart phones have become our “outboard brain.” Through device automation, Apple has imbued retail clerks with superpowers in its stores. Watson, the AI that beat human champions at “Jeopardy,” is now being deployed to advise doctors in real time, having read ALL the scientific papers. YouTube has mastered the attention economy. Humanity has a shared memory in the cloud. Data scientists rule.
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Tim O’Reilly: Birth of the Global Mind - The Long Now
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Edward O. Wilson: The Social Conquest of Earth - The Long Now
“History makes no sense without prehistory,“ Wilson declared, “and prehistory makes no sense without biology.” He began by noting that every religion has a different creation story, all of them necessarily based on ignorance of what really happened in the past. Religions thus can’t give valid answers on the meaning of life—-Gauguin’s questions: “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?” Philosophy gave up on the questions long ago. The task was left to science, and from science a valid, shareable creation story is now emerging.
http://longnow.org/seminars/02012/apr/20/social-conquest-earth/
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Lazar Kunstmann, Jon Lackman: Preservation without Permission: the Paris Urban eXperiment - The Long Now
They evade authorities to carry out secret preservation projects on what they call “nonvisible heritage.”
Being clandestine, they do not reveal their activities except for instances that become publicized in the media; then they reveal everything to set the record straight (and embarrass the media along with the authorities). In the video presented by Untergunther member Lazar Kunstmann and translator Jon Lackman, we see a hidden underground screening room and bar beneath the Trocadero in Paris’s Latin Quarter. When police discover it and shut it down, the equipment is surreptitiously removed to a site deeper in the city’s vast network of underground passages, where film showings continue to this day. One year the group’s annual film festival was staged and performed overnight in one of Paris’s great monuments, the Panthéon, built in 1790. In the video (excerpt here) we see a small boy slipping through newly crafted underground passageways, picking a lock, opening the cupboard with all the Panthéon‘s keys, and gliding on his skateboard beneath the great dome across the ornate marble floors by Foucault’s original pendulum as film enthusiasts set up a temporary theater and have a clandestine film festival—-gone without a trace by dawn.
http://longnow.org/seminars/02012/nov/13/preservation-without-permission-paris-urban-experiment/
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SALT - Without Us, World With Us
Alan Weisman 25 February 2010 03:30World Without Us, World With Us
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SALT - Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization
David Eagleman2 April 2010 04:30Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization
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SALT - Brian Eno, Stewart Brand, Alex Rose: Long Finance: The Enduring Value Conference
Brian Eno, Stewart Brand, Alexander Rose2 February 2010 03:30 Long Finance: The Enduring Value Conference
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SALT - Stewart Brand, Jem Finer Long Conversation 1/19
Stewart Brand, Jem Finer16 October 2010 23:03Long Conversation 1 of 19
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SALT - The World’s Oldest Living Organisms
Rachel Sussman15 November 2010 23:00 The World’s Oldest Living Organisms
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SALT - Lawrence Lessig
18 January 2012 03:30How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It
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“The Coming Civil War Over General Purpose Computation” at Long Now
I’ve been trying out a sequel to my 2011 28C3 talk, The Coming War on General Purpose Computation. I’ve given the talk twice now, once at DEFCON 20 in Las Vegas and once at the Long Now SALT talk in San Francisco. The Long Now folks have put up the audio already, with video to follow. I’m giving the talk again at Google on Monday and I’m guessing that the video will be live quickly (with the slides) and I’ll post that then.
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