Long-Term Thinking: How Humanity Struggles with Difficult, Future Problems

Brett Lovgren will cover the Long Now Foundation, best known for its 10,000-year clock, and the Viridian Design movement. He will talk about his recent article posted on Medium, "The Long Now Foundation: Creating the Future With Clocks, Talks and Manuals; The Manuscript Monks of our Age." The article is part of a retrospective on the Viridian Design movement. The movement, an email list started in 2000 to address the Greenhouse Effect, closed down in 2008. Brett's talk will include information on the leaders of the two groups, Stewart Brand (Long Now) and Bruce Sterling (Viridian), and a discussion of their differing approaches to long-term thinking. Please join the conversation on Twitter using hashtag #AskSRR  .

Brett Lovgren works in the computer business by day.  He is the author of The Bicycle Path, an essay about what he learned from Dutch bike culture. Available at Apple, Amazon and Barnes and Noble ebookstores. Now also in print.

This talk is part of the Sunday Forum: Science, Reason & Religion of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax.  The forum will be in the Program Building.  All are welcome.