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What Books Could Be Used to Rebuild Civilization?: Lists by Brian Eno, Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly & Other Forward-Thinking Minds

What Books Could Be Used to Rebuild Civilization?: Lists by Brian Eno, Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly & Other Forward-Thinking Minds | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
One particularly distressing hallmark of late modernity can be characterized as a cultural loss of the future.
Lee SCHLENKER's curator insight, February 20, 2015 6:52 AM

As the Long Now Foundation co-founder Stewart Brand describes it, “civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span,” driven by “the acceleration of technology, the short-horizon perspective of market-driven economics, the next-election perspective of democracies, or the distractions of personal multi-tasking.” 

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Wired Magazine's Cofounder Shares 3 Books That Can Change Your Life - Business Insider

Wired Magazine's Cofounder Shares 3 Books That Can Change Your Life - Business Insider | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Wired magazine cofounder, entrepreneur, and prolific writer Kevin Kelly has a two-story personal library in his home and says that he's read thousands of books.




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