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Back to SearchRusty Schweickart: The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years
### Asteroid threat report Schweickart filled the hall with some 240 at the Presidio Officers Club and gave a dazzling lecture. He left the next day for Washington DC to lobby Congress to apply its w…
Published on 21 years, 6 months ago
James Dewar: Long-term Policy Analysis
### Long-term policy analysis Dewar is head of RAND’s Pardee Center on very long-term policy—35 to 200 years For over half a century the RAND Corporation has influenced national policy and invented m…
Published on 21 years, 7 months ago
George Dyson: There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing
### Long-term thinking about large-scale computing Ever since his 1997 breakthrough book, _Darwin Among the Machines_ , Dyson has become regarded as a leading historian and interpreter of computer sc…
Published on 21 years, 9 months ago
Peter Schwartz: The Art Of The Really Long View
### The art of the really long view For such a weighty subject there was a lot of guffawing going on in the Seminar Thursday night. The topic was "The Art of the Really Long View." Peter Schwartz cha…
Published on 21 years, 9 months ago
Brian Eno: The Long Now
### The Long Now Brian told the origins of his realizations about the "small here" versus the "big here" and the "short now" versus the "long now." He noted that the Big Here is pretty well populariz…
Published on 21 years, 10 months ago