Comments on: The passage of time is flicking dimly up on the screen

The passage of time is flicking dimly up on the screen

Blue Stone — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:35:04 -0800

An entertaining talk on long term thinking, by Brian Eno.

By: Blue Stone

Blue Stone — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:35:47 -0800

The Long Now Foundation, and its work, has been mentioned prev iously on Metafilter.

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:16:18 -0800

I like the pictures!

By: Outlawyr

Outlawyr — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:32:13 -0800

It would take a long time to read about all that long term thinking. I think I'll take a cat nap instead

By: Voivod

Voivod — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 18:15:55 -0800

The Long Now Foundation is hosting talks like this every other Friday in San Francisco. They're great! Saw Bruce Sterling troll a room full of cyberpunk fans last week on the concept of the Singularity, or techo-rapture as he put it.

By: Dean King

Dean King — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 18:37:56 -0800

Thanks for this!

By: euphorb

euphorb — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:37:34 -0800

Actually in the 1950s I heard there used to be jukeboxes in America that had one silent disc, so if you wanted a bit of peace, then you put your dime in and you dialed that number and you got three minutes of silence. Any truth to that? Sounds pretty apocryphal to me, but if true it would be bad news for John Cage. For an alternate take on the Long Now folks check out Michael Lewis' book, Next: The Future Just Happened, which has an accompanying BBC series. Episode the Fourth (Realmedia) has an interview with some of the Long Now people around 30 min in although he isn't as harsh on them as he was in the book.

By: Satapher

Satapher — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 21:18:56 -0800

awesome post, missed it the first times

By: BigCalm

BigCalm — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 02:23:34 -0800

Actually in the 1950s I heard there used to be jukeboxes in America that had one silent disc, so if you wanted a bit of peace, then you put your dime in and you dialled that number and you got three minutes of silence. I'd love to get a collection of those records wouldn't that be fantastic! A jukebox where that's all you had on, different varieties of silence. This is my kind of weirdo.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 06:45:08 -0800

Great post! I've only gotten through about a third of the prose, but those pictures! One of the things I love about Eno is that he can be both perfectly serious and perfectly silly at the same time. These are good examples of that.