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The Clock of the Long Now : Time and Responsibility
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The Clock of the Long Now : Time and Responsibility Paperback - 2000

by Brand, Stewart

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An important figure in the U.S. counterculture, Brand sees the inability to imagine the future in the new millennium as an unwillingness to accept responsibility for it. In this work, he tackles the question of how to make long-term thinking an integral part of our fast-paced lives.

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  • Title The Clock of the Long Now : Time and Responsibility
  • Author Brand, Stewart
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-04-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4890191-6
  • ISBN 9780465007806 / 0465007805
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.34 x 0.56 in (20.37 x 13.56 x 1.42 cm)
  • Reading level 1160
  • Dewey Decimal Code 115

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Time and Responsibility.What a prime subject for vapid truism and gaseous generalities adding up to the world's most boring sermon.

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About the author

Stewart Brand is the founder of The Whole Earth Catalog and Co-Evolution Quarterly. He is the author of The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT and How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built, and is the Director of the Global Business Network in Emeryville, California. He lives on a tugboat in San Francisco Bay.