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SALT Summaries, Condensed Ideas About Long-term Thinking
Condensed ideas about long-term thinking summarized by Stewart Brand
(with Kevin Kelly, Alexander Rose and Paul Saffo) and a forward by Brian Eno. These are summaries of talks by Jared Diamond, Craig Venter, Bruce Sterling, Jill Tarter, Martin Rees, Clay Shirky, Niall Ferguson, Jimmy Wales, Mary Catherine Bateson, Paul Hawken, Vernor Vinge, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Harris, Will Wright, Orville Schell, Nassim Taleb, Michael Pollan, Wade Davis, Lera Boroditsky, David Eagleman, Richard Rhodes, Paul Romer, Matt Ridley and more...
(with Kevin Kelly, Alexander Rose and Paul Saffo) and a forward by Brian Eno. These are summaries of talks by Jared Diamond, Craig Venter, Bruce Sterling, Jill Tarter, Martin Rees, Clay Shirky, Niall Ferguson, Jimmy Wales, Mary Catherine Bateson, Paul Hawken, Vernor Vinge, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Harris, Will Wright, Orville Schell, Nassim Taleb, Michael Pollan, Wade Davis, Lera Boroditsky, David Eagleman, Richard Rhodes, Paul Romer, Matt Ridley and more...
336 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 18, 2011
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Stewart Brand
60 books272 followersStewart Brand was a pioneer in the environmental movement in the 60s – his Whole Earth Catalog became the Bible for sustainable living, selling more than 10 million copies worldwide. Brand is President of The Long Now Foundation and chairs the foundation's Seminars About Long-term Thinking.
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April 3, 2020
2018.07.15–2018.12.18
Contents:
Brand S (2015) SALT Summaries, Condensed Ideas About Long-term Thinking
Foreward Written by Brian Eno
02003
• Brian Eno - The Long Now
• Peter Schwartz - The Art Of The Really Long View
02004
• George Dyson - There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing
• James Dewar - Long-term Policy Analysis
• Rusty Schweickart - The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years
• Daniel Janzen - Third World Conservation: It's ALL Gardening
• David Rumsey - Mapping Time
• Bruce Sterling - The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole
• Jill Tarter - The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence: Necessarily a Long-term Strategy
• Phillip Longman - The Depopulation Problem
• Danny Hillis - Progress on the 10,000-year Clock
• Paul Hawken - The Long Green
• Michael West - The Prospects of Human Life Extension
• Ken Dychtwald - The Consequences of Human Life Extension
02005
• James Carse - Religious War In Light of the Infinite Game
• Roger Kennedy - The Political History of North America from 25,000 BC to 12,000 AD
• Spencer Beebe - Very Long-term Very Large-scale Biomimicry
• Stewart Brand - Cities & Time
• Will Jarvis - Time Capsule Behavior
• Robert Neuwirth - The 21st Century Medieval City
• Jared Diamond - How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed
• Robert Fuller - Patient Revolution: Human Rights Past and Future
• Ray Kurzweil - Kurzweil's Law
• George Dyson, Freeman Dyson, Esther Dyson - The Difficulty of Looking Far Ahead
• Clay Shirky - Making Digital Durable: What Time Does to Categories
• Sam Harris - The View from the End of the World
02006
• Ralph Cavanagh, Peter Schwartz - Nuclear Power, Climate Change and the Next 10,000 Years
• Stephen Lansing - Perfect Order: A Thousand Years in Bali
• Kevin Kelly - The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method.
• Jimmy Wales - Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture
• Chris Anderson, Will Hearst - The Long Time Tail
• Brian Eno, Will Wright - Playing with Time
• John Rendon - Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short
• Orville Schell - China Thinks Long-term, But Can It Relearn to Act Long-term?
• John Baez - Zooming Out in Time
• Larry Brilliant, Katherine Fulton, Richard Rockefeller - The Deeper News About the New Philanthropy
• Philip Rosedale - 'Second Life:' What Do We Learn If We Digitize EVERYTHING?
02007
• Philip Tetlock - Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs
• Vernor Vinge - What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen?
• Brian Fagan - We Are Not the First to Suffer Through Climate Change
• Frans Lanting - Life's Journey Through Time
• Steven Johnson - The Long Zoom
• Paul Hawken - The New Great Transformation
• Francis Fukuyama - 'The End of History' Revisited
• Alex Wright - Glut: Mastering Information Though the Ages
• Rip Anderson, Gwyneth Cravens - Power to Save the World
• Juan Enriquez - Mapping the Frontier of Knowledge
• Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Enduring Principles for Changing Times
• Joline Blais, Jon Ippolito - At the Edge of Art
02008
• Paul Saffo - Embracing Uncertainty: the secret to effective forecasting
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought
• Craig Venter - Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention
• Niall Ferguson, Peter Schwartz - Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress
• Iqbal Quadir - Technology Empowers the Poorest
• Paul Ehrlich - The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment
• Edward Burtynsky - The 10,000-year Gallery
• Daniel Suarez (aka author Leinad Zeraus) - Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality
• Neal Stephenson - ANATHEM Book Launch Event
• Peter Diamandis - Long-term X-Prizes
• Huey Johnson - Green Planning at Nation Scale
• Drew Endy, Jim Thomas - Synthetic Biology Debate
• Rick Prelinger - Lost Landscapes of San Francisco
02009
• Saul Griffith - Climate Change Recalculated
• Dmitry Orlov - Social Collapse Best Practices
• Daniel Everett - Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future
• Gavin Newsom - Cities and Time
• Michael Pollan - Deep Agriculture
• Paul Romer - A Theory of History, with an Application
• Raoul Adamchak, Pamela Ronald - Organically Grown and Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future
• Wayne Clough - Smithsonian Forever
• Arthur Ganson - Machines and the Breath of Time
• Stewart Brand - Rethinking Green
• Sander van der Leeuw - The Archaeology of Innovation
02010
• Wade Davis - The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
• Alan Weisman - World Without Us, World With Us
• Beth Noveck - Transparent Government
• David Eagleman - Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization
• Nils Gilman - Deviant Globalization
• Ed Moses - Clean Fusion Power This Decade
• Frank Gavin - Five Ways to Use History Well
• Jesse Schell - Visions of the Gamepocalypse
• Martin Rees - Life's Future in the Cosmos
• Richard Rhodes - Twilight of the Bombs
• Nineteen Speakers - Long Conversation
• Lera Boroditsky - How Language Shapes Thought
• Rachel Sussman - The World's Oldest Living Organisms
02011
• Philip K. Howard - Fixing Broken Government
• Mary Catherine Bateson - Live Longer, Think Longer
• Matt Ridley - Deep Optimism
• Ian Morris - Why the West Rules - For Now
• Tim Flannery - Here on Earth
• Carl Zimmer - Viral Time
• Peter Kareiva - Conservation in the Real World
• Geoffrey B. West - Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster
• Timothy Ferriss - Accelerated Learning in Accelerated Times
• Laura Cunningham - Ten Millennia of California Ecology
• Brewster Kahle - Universal Access to All Knowledge
02012
• Lawrence Lessig - How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It
• Jim Richardson - Heirlooms: Saving Humanity's 10,000-year Legacy of Food
• Mark Lynas - The Nine Planetary Boundaries: Finessing the Anthropocene
• Edward O. Wilson - The Social Conquest of Earth
• Charles C. Mann - Living in the Homogenocene: The First 500 Years
• Susan Freinkel - Eternal Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
• Benjamin Barber - If Mayors Ruled the World
• Cory Doctorow - The Coming Century of War Against Your Computer
• Elaine Pagels - The Truth About the Book of Revelations
• Tim O'Reilly - Birth of the Global Mind
• Steven Pinker - The Decline of Violence
• Lazar Kunstmann, Jon Lackman - Preservation without Permission: the Paris Urban eXperiment
• Peter Warshall - Enchanted by the Sun: The CoEvolution of Light, Life, and Color on Earth
02013
• Terry Hunt, Carl Lipo - The Statues Walked -- What Really Happened on Easter Island
• Chris Anderson - The Makers Revolution
• George Dyson - No Time Is There--- The Digital Universe and Why Things Appear To Be Speeding Up
• Nicholas Negroponte - Beyond Digital
• Stewart Brand - Reviving Extinct Species
• Ed Lu - Anthropocene Astronomy: Thwarting Dangerous Asteroids Begins with Finding Them
• Craig Childs - Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth
• Daniel Kahneman - Thinking Fast and Slow
• Peter Schwartz - The Starships ARE Coming
• Adam Steltzner - Beyond Mars, Earth
• Richard Kurin - American History in 101 Objects
02014
• Brian Eno, Danny Hillis - The Long Now, now
• Colonel Matthew Bogdanos - The Unlooting of Civilization’s Treasures in Wartime Iraq
• Mariana Mazzucato - The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Private vs. Public Sector Myths
• Tony Hsieh - Helping Revitalize a City
• Sylvia Earle, Tierney Thys - Oceanic
• Stefan Kroepelin - Civilization’s Mysterious Desert Cradle: Rediscovering the Deep Sahara
• Adrian Hon - A History of the Future in 100 Objects
• Anne Neuberger - Inside the NSA
• Drew Endy - The iGEM Revolution
• Larry Harvey - Why The Man Keeps Burning
• Kevin Kelly - Technium Unbound
02015
• Jesse Ausubel - Nature is Rebounding: Land- and Ocean-sparing through Concentrating Human Activities
• David Keith - Patient Geoengineering
• Paul Saffo - The Creator Economy
• Michael Shermer - The Long Arc of Moral Progress
• Beth Shapiro - How to Clone a Mammoth
• Neil Gaiman - How Stories Last
• Ramez Naam - Enhancing Humans, Advancing Humanity
Contents:
Brand S (2015) SALT Summaries, Condensed Ideas About Long-term Thinking
Foreward Written by Brian Eno
02003
• Brian Eno - The Long Now
• Peter Schwartz - The Art Of The Really Long View
02004
• George Dyson - There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing
• James Dewar - Long-term Policy Analysis
• Rusty Schweickart - The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years
• Daniel Janzen - Third World Conservation: It's ALL Gardening
• David Rumsey - Mapping Time
• Bruce Sterling - The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole
• Jill Tarter - The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence: Necessarily a Long-term Strategy
• Phillip Longman - The Depopulation Problem
• Danny Hillis - Progress on the 10,000-year Clock
• Paul Hawken - The Long Green
• Michael West - The Prospects of Human Life Extension
• Ken Dychtwald - The Consequences of Human Life Extension
02005
• James Carse - Religious War In Light of the Infinite Game
• Roger Kennedy - The Political History of North America from 25,000 BC to 12,000 AD
• Spencer Beebe - Very Long-term Very Large-scale Biomimicry
• Stewart Brand - Cities & Time
• Will Jarvis - Time Capsule Behavior
• Robert Neuwirth - The 21st Century Medieval City
• Jared Diamond - How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed
• Robert Fuller - Patient Revolution: Human Rights Past and Future
• Ray Kurzweil - Kurzweil's Law
• George Dyson, Freeman Dyson, Esther Dyson - The Difficulty of Looking Far Ahead
• Clay Shirky - Making Digital Durable: What Time Does to Categories
• Sam Harris - The View from the End of the World
02006
• Ralph Cavanagh, Peter Schwartz - Nuclear Power, Climate Change and the Next 10,000 Years
• Stephen Lansing - Perfect Order: A Thousand Years in Bali
• Kevin Kelly - The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method.
• Jimmy Wales - Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture
• Chris Anderson, Will Hearst - The Long Time Tail
• Brian Eno, Will Wright - Playing with Time
• John Rendon - Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short
• Orville Schell - China Thinks Long-term, But Can It Relearn to Act Long-term?
• John Baez - Zooming Out in Time
• Larry Brilliant, Katherine Fulton, Richard Rockefeller - The Deeper News About the New Philanthropy
• Philip Rosedale - 'Second Life:' What Do We Learn If We Digitize EVERYTHING?
02007
• Philip Tetlock - Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs
• Vernor Vinge - What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen?
• Brian Fagan - We Are Not the First to Suffer Through Climate Change
• Frans Lanting - Life's Journey Through Time
• Steven Johnson - The Long Zoom
• Paul Hawken - The New Great Transformation
• Francis Fukuyama - 'The End of History' Revisited
• Alex Wright - Glut: Mastering Information Though the Ages
• Rip Anderson, Gwyneth Cravens - Power to Save the World
• Juan Enriquez - Mapping the Frontier of Knowledge
• Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Enduring Principles for Changing Times
• Joline Blais, Jon Ippolito - At the Edge of Art
02008
• Paul Saffo - Embracing Uncertainty: the secret to effective forecasting
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought
• Craig Venter - Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention
• Niall Ferguson, Peter Schwartz - Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress
• Iqbal Quadir - Technology Empowers the Poorest
• Paul Ehrlich - The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment
• Edward Burtynsky - The 10,000-year Gallery
• Daniel Suarez (aka author Leinad Zeraus) - Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality
• Neal Stephenson - ANATHEM Book Launch Event
• Peter Diamandis - Long-term X-Prizes
• Huey Johnson - Green Planning at Nation Scale
• Drew Endy, Jim Thomas - Synthetic Biology Debate
• Rick Prelinger - Lost Landscapes of San Francisco
02009
• Saul Griffith - Climate Change Recalculated
• Dmitry Orlov - Social Collapse Best Practices
• Daniel Everett - Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future
• Gavin Newsom - Cities and Time
• Michael Pollan - Deep Agriculture
• Paul Romer - A Theory of History, with an Application
• Raoul Adamchak, Pamela Ronald - Organically Grown and Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future
• Wayne Clough - Smithsonian Forever
• Arthur Ganson - Machines and the Breath of Time
• Stewart Brand - Rethinking Green
• Sander van der Leeuw - The Archaeology of Innovation
02010
• Wade Davis - The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
• Alan Weisman - World Without Us, World With Us
• Beth Noveck - Transparent Government
• David Eagleman - Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization
• Nils Gilman - Deviant Globalization
• Ed Moses - Clean Fusion Power This Decade
• Frank Gavin - Five Ways to Use History Well
• Jesse Schell - Visions of the Gamepocalypse
• Martin Rees - Life's Future in the Cosmos
• Richard Rhodes - Twilight of the Bombs
• Nineteen Speakers - Long Conversation
• Lera Boroditsky - How Language Shapes Thought
• Rachel Sussman - The World's Oldest Living Organisms
02011
• Philip K. Howard - Fixing Broken Government
• Mary Catherine Bateson - Live Longer, Think Longer
• Matt Ridley - Deep Optimism
• Ian Morris - Why the West Rules - For Now
• Tim Flannery - Here on Earth
• Carl Zimmer - Viral Time
• Peter Kareiva - Conservation in the Real World
• Geoffrey B. West - Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster
• Timothy Ferriss - Accelerated Learning in Accelerated Times
• Laura Cunningham - Ten Millennia of California Ecology
• Brewster Kahle - Universal Access to All Knowledge
02012
• Lawrence Lessig - How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It
• Jim Richardson - Heirlooms: Saving Humanity's 10,000-year Legacy of Food
• Mark Lynas - The Nine Planetary Boundaries: Finessing the Anthropocene
• Edward O. Wilson - The Social Conquest of Earth
• Charles C. Mann - Living in the Homogenocene: The First 500 Years
• Susan Freinkel - Eternal Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
• Benjamin Barber - If Mayors Ruled the World
• Cory Doctorow - The Coming Century of War Against Your Computer
• Elaine Pagels - The Truth About the Book of Revelations
• Tim O'Reilly - Birth of the Global Mind
• Steven Pinker - The Decline of Violence
• Lazar Kunstmann, Jon Lackman - Preservation without Permission: the Paris Urban eXperiment
• Peter Warshall - Enchanted by the Sun: The CoEvolution of Light, Life, and Color on Earth
02013
• Terry Hunt, Carl Lipo - The Statues Walked -- What Really Happened on Easter Island
• Chris Anderson - The Makers Revolution
• George Dyson - No Time Is There--- The Digital Universe and Why Things Appear To Be Speeding Up
• Nicholas Negroponte - Beyond Digital
• Stewart Brand - Reviving Extinct Species
• Ed Lu - Anthropocene Astronomy: Thwarting Dangerous Asteroids Begins with Finding Them
• Craig Childs - Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth
• Daniel Kahneman - Thinking Fast and Slow
• Peter Schwartz - The Starships ARE Coming
• Adam Steltzner - Beyond Mars, Earth
• Richard Kurin - American History in 101 Objects
02014
• Brian Eno, Danny Hillis - The Long Now, now
• Colonel Matthew Bogdanos - The Unlooting of Civilization’s Treasures in Wartime Iraq
• Mariana Mazzucato - The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Private vs. Public Sector Myths
• Tony Hsieh - Helping Revitalize a City
• Sylvia Earle, Tierney Thys - Oceanic
• Stefan Kroepelin - Civilization’s Mysterious Desert Cradle: Rediscovering the Deep Sahara
• Adrian Hon - A History of the Future in 100 Objects
• Anne Neuberger - Inside the NSA
• Drew Endy - The iGEM Revolution
• Larry Harvey - Why The Man Keeps Burning
• Kevin Kelly - Technium Unbound
02015
• Jesse Ausubel - Nature is Rebounding: Land- and Ocean-sparing through Concentrating Human Activities
• David Keith - Patient Geoengineering
• Paul Saffo - The Creator Economy
• Michael Shermer - The Long Arc of Moral Progress
• Beth Shapiro - How to Clone a Mammoth
• Neil Gaiman - How Stories Last
• Ramez Naam - Enhancing Humans, Advancing Humanity
August 31, 2020
This book will shake you. Transform you. May even free you from the tyranny of never-ending now. Future is not a noun. It is a verb. To keep futuring, grab a (very affordable) Kindle copy and spend an afternoon. Your life, or at least your mind, will change forever. TED talks are for “haters and losers”, easy carb for your ailing mind. SALT talks are the real deal - deep, passionate and earth shaking (even when they are not talking about 100 megaton meteor hits!).
April 12, 2018
Inspiration, but lacking depth. As you might expect. Good quick reads for public transit.
May 22, 2019
This book is perfect if you sign up for a longnow membership and want to have a rough idea about past talks. I now have a list of talks that I want to go and watch.
September 15, 2015
A collection of summarised big and long term ideas. I like it because it shows you that we can actually think bigger than what we do to make a living. And more importantly, it shows that others are actually doing it. Why dont' you? :-)
January 21, 2016
If you don't have time to listen to the SALT talks (which I highly recommend), you can get the basics here. While not a perfect substitute for the talks, it's a good way to become informed on some arcane topics.
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