Re:The Notre Dame fire and the future of history
by samfriedman on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @10:47AM
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Fascinating. Reminds me of the Neal Stephenson novel, Anathem, in which academic enclaves exist for the purpose of safeguarding knowledge for the long haul and against external calamities.
Re:The Notre Dame fire and the future of history
by privong on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @11:07AM
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Neal Stephenson has been involved with Long Now and the 10,000 year clock since 1999 and that involvement led to Anathem: https://www.nealstephenson.com/anathem.html
Re:The Notre Dame fire and the future of history
by _emacsomancer_ on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @10:49AM
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Re:The Notre Dame fire and the future of history
by bitwize on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @11:09AM
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The Long Now project was an inspiration for Anathem.
Re:The Notre Dame fire and the future of history
by pixelperfect on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @11:58AM
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Long Now Foundation is thinking about the distant future, but as far as I understand the building phase of their current projects will be completed within a single generation.
The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide a counterpoint to today's accelerating culture and help make long-term thinking more common. We hope to foster responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.
http://longnow.org/about/