MetaFilter posts tagged with LongNow

The 10,000 Year Clock

homunculus — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:55:34 -0800

Photos: The 10,000 Year Clock. [Via]

Guitar music is on its way out.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:24:44 -0800

Wrong Tomorrow is a bit like Long Bets, except shorter and without the bets.

Previously on Long Bets

Some articles about expert predictions

Long Term Thinking

Homemade Interossiter — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:39:07 -0800

How far do you plan ahead? Are we careering towards another Dark Age? The Long Now Foundation (subject of many previous posts on Metafilter), has finally solved the technical problems in producing a modern day Rosetta Stone. Orders are now shipping. Not only does the question address long term backup and materials science, but also the evolution of language.

Mr. Buffett makes a bet

blahblahblah — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:22:36 -0800

Warren Buffett bets a hedge fund manager $1 million that the S&P 500 will outperform hedge funds over the next 10 years. Buffett has argued vociferously, sometimes using parables, that the smartest way for the average person to invest is to put money in simple no-load index funds. The bet is being overseen by the Long Now Foundation's Long Bets, where previously Ted Danson has won a bet about the Red Sox and Brian Eno one one politics. And there's more on the Long Now blog, which is generally interesting reading.

Old wax in your ears. Whats next?

Rumple — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 01:37:49 -0800

"Its like a fancy xerox machine": taking unplayable, broken, cracked, or worn-out wax cylinders and shellac disks, Lawrence Berkeley Lab scientists have found a way to image the grooves directly into digital sound files (some examples on this page). News summaries on this research make me think of obsolete computer media and the digital archaeology that may be needed to read them. What stable media should we use to communicate with the future? High density analog disks are one idea, nuclear waste warning monuments (long, surreal PDF) are another, and, of course, who can forget the pictographs for aliens sent out with Pioneer 10?. Serious thinking about this at the Long Now Foundation and the Foundation for the Future.

In the year ten thousaaaaaaaand

gwint — Wed, 04 Aug 2004 08:48:11 -0800

Lectures on the Long Now (mp3s) including talks by Brian Eno, George Dyson, Bruce Sterling and more. Brought to you by the folks at the Long Now Foundation.

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.

It's all for charidee...

dash_slot- — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 12:02:23 -0800

Mitch Kapor reckons that by 2029 no computer - or "machine intelligence" - will have passed the Turing Test. If he's right, the EFF wins $20,000 on a bet.

In the well designed and conceptualised Long Bets website , other participants in the Predictions game: Dave Winer, Esther Dyson, Vint Cerf and Ted Danson!
All predictions here; All bets here - discussions so far here.
Any Mefites willing to stake their rep on cherished beliefs? What do you want to publicly predict will - or will not - happen, and by when?

bison — Tue, 31 Oct 2000 08:03:28 -0800

Even if it didn't just plain old look neat [*large graphic*] the Clock of the Long Now is an awesome idea.