manual_for_civilization.png. Brian Eno: Hi. I'm music's Brian Eno, co-founder of the Long Now Foundation. [[Brian Eno is on a stage.]] Brian Eno: As part of our mission to
He is explaining to an audience that one of the missions of the Long Now is a Manual for Civilization - a collection of reference materials that can help rebuild society in . I believe 3 text-book sized volumes could contain enough information on wilderness knowledge, engineering, science, medicine, and psychology for an
In 02014, Long Now began building it. The Manual For Civilization is working toward a living, crowd-curated library of 3,500 books put forward by the Long Now community and on display at The Interval. To stack the shelves, we solicited book recommendations from Long Now members and supporters, special guest
Book lists suggested for The Manual for Civilization.
18 Feb 2015 As the Long Now Foundation co-founder Stewart Brand describes it, “civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span," driven by “the One wing of this library, the Manual for Civilization, aims to compile a collection of 3,500 books in the Foundation's physical space---books deemed
17 Mar 2014 Which books would you turn to if you needed to rebuild civilization? Futurist Stewart Brand has compiled a list of “76 Books to Sustain and Rebuild Humanity" as part of the Long Now Foundation's Manual for Civilization. The Manual is a collection of roughly 3,500 books collaboratively curated by artists,
14 Mar 2014 In a recent piece about the Manual for Civilization — the Long Now Foundation's effort to assemble 3,500 books most essential for sustaining or rebuilding humanity, as part of their collaboratively curated library of 3,500 books for long-term thinking — I lamented the fact that Stewart Brand's 76-book
6 Feb 2014 Great idea, eh? If it were up to me these canons would be produced in huge numbers and concealed in the planet's most obscured spaces. Shooting a few dozen into long-term orbits would be a nice touch.This article has been reproduced in a new format and may be missing content or contain faulty links.
6 Feb 2014 As we near completion of The Interval at Long Now, our new venue in San Francisco, we are also building a collection of books that will reside here. We have named this collection the Manual for Civilization, and it will include the roughly 3500 books most essential to sustain or rebuild civilizatio.
John M. Logsdon, 6 books. Larry Gonick, 3 books. Virginia Woolf, 2 books. Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 2 books. Joris-Karl Huysmans, 2 books. Steven Pinker, 2 books. Carl Sagan, 2 books. Raymond Roussel, 2 books. Kevin Kelly, 1 book. Nordhoff, Charles, 1 book. John Wiseman, 1 book. Marcel Proust, 1 book. Edward Gibbon

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