Zander was the executive director of The Long Now Foundation, dedicated to long term thinking. He also helped build their library, a book club for the end of the world, with all the titles we would want to rebuild civilization, if needed.
He is one of the brains behind the 10,000-Year Clock, designed to tick off the years, and chime the centuries. He’s now co-creating the future of the web at Automattic.
He and his team are bringing a library to Black Rock City, to the World’s Fair pavilion under The Man. It’s a refreshing opposite. Like his theme camp inside a refrigerator truck NOT being hot, this library is about NOT being burnt. It’s an ephemeral manual for civilization. We the participants will choose what books to save from burning.
Zander shares stories on the effects of books, websites, and rituals, as well as Burning Man’s past, present, and future.
This episode is on YouTube here.
BRC Honoraria Art (Burning Man Journal)
A group for those who want to participate (Facebook)
A Pavilion for Tomorrow Today (Burning Man Journal)
wikipedia.org/Clock_of_the_Long_Now
Kevin Kelly: Optimists Create the Future (Burning Man LIVE)
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