The most condensed writing Brand has ever done. Paragraph-length summaries distilling the essential ideas from over 100 Seminars About Long-term Thinking (SALT), the monthly lecture series Brand has curated for The Long Now Foundation since 02003. The condensed long-term thinking of Jared Diamond, Craig Venter, Bruce Sterling, Daniel Kahneman, Neil Gaiman, Clay Shirky, Nassim Taleb, Ray Kurzweil, Michael Pollan, Jill Tarter, Sam Harris, and many others. Foreword by Brian Eno.
“Civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span. The trend might be coming from 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. All are on the increase.”