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- Stewart Brand's Suggested Books about Long Term Thinking
- Books in Print By Long Now Board Members
- Other Books suggested by Long Now:
| Book Name | Author | Date | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finite and Infinite Games | James P. Carse | 01994 | "In the infinite game, to play is to win." |
| The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World | Peter Schwartz | 01991 | "Scenarios engage and free the future." |
| The Myth of the Eternal Return | Mircea Eliade | 01991 | "Humanity's love of timelessness." |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel | Jared Diamond | 01999 | "Biogeography made agriculture, made civilization." |
| The Civilization of the Middle Ages | Norman F. Cantor | 01993 | "Surviving a dark age." |
| The Discoverers | Daniel Boorstin | 01985 | "How ideas drove history." |
| Revolutions in Time | David Landes | 01983 | "How clocks synchronized civilization." |
| The Idea of Decline in Western Civilization | Arthur Herman | 01997 | "Doom is a bad idea." |
| Thinking in Time | Richard Neustadt, Ernest May | 01988 | "Applying history well." |
| Built to Last | James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras | 01994 | "Organizing for longevity." |
| The Evolution of Cooperation | Robert Axelrod | 01985 | "Time builds trust." |
| Governing the Commons | Elinor Ostrom | 01991 | "Untragic common sense." |
| Holy Fire | Bruce Sterling | 01997 | "Long life changes life." |
| Infinite in All Directions : Gifford Lectures Given at Aberdeen, Scotland April--November 1985 | Freeman J. Dyson | 01985 | "Sophisticated optimism." |
| The Age of Spiritual Machines | Ray Kurzweil | 01999 | "Beyond Moore's Law." |
| Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia | Gregory Benford |
01999 | "Communication and responsibility over millennia. " |
| The Future of Life | Edward O. Wilson | 02003 | "The true state of the natural world." |
| Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution | Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, |
02000 | "The sinews of sustainability." |
| The Holocene: An Environmental History | Neil Roberts |
01998 | "Environmental change over 10,000 years." |
| Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage | Steven LeBlanc, Katherine E. Register | 02003 | "Humans always over-populate and always slaughter." |
| Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and Economics | Kevin Kelly | 01995 | "Complexity goes its own way." |
| The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility | Stewart Brand | 01999 | "Time and responsibility" |
| Book Name | Author | Date | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Longplayer | Jem Finer | 02003 | This is a beautiful book with vinyl LP of and about Jem Finer's Longplayer project. |
| The Future of the Past | Alexander Stille | 02003 | Stille brings to life the personalities of preservationists, scholars, opportunists, looters and other key players in the world of conservation and preservation. |
| Into the Future (VHS) | Terry Sanders | 01997 | This is an excellent documentary film on the loss of digital data in modern times. |
| The Complete Pyramids | Mark Lehner | 01997 | "The most durable signal through time." |
| Lost Civilizations | Dale M. Brown | 01995 | "Greatness falls, time after time." |
| The Creators | Daniel Boorstin | 01993 | "Art, invention, and science through history." |
| The Vanished Library | Luciano Canfora | 01990 | "The Library of Alexandria." |
| How the Irish Saved Civilization | Thomas Cahill | 01995 | "Heroics of continuity." |
| Revolutions in Time | David Landes | 01983 | "How clocks synchronized civilization." |
| Thinking in Time | Richard Neustadt, Ernest May | 01988 | "Applying history well." |
| Future Survey | Michael Marien | Monthly Newsletter | "All the good new books and articles about the future." |
| Encyclopedia Britannica Online | n/a | Current | "Quick, deep online research." |
*The majority of this list and comments are taken straight from the recommended bibliography located in the back of Stewart Brand's book: Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility. Some titles may not appear because they are unavailable or out of print.
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