Stewart Brand and partners are building a 10,000-year clock, and within 25 years he hopes to catalog every life form on earth. That's anywhere from 10 to 100 million life forms, and only 1.6 million have been identified so far. Clearly someone who adopts lofty and time-intensive projects that he himself deems "mad," is worth checking out. Brand will be holding a rare lecture, "What Information Wants," to share his most recent thoughts on the nature of information in a social context. Brand has written several critically acclaimed books, including The Clock of the Long Now (which refers to the aforementioned clock) and How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (to change the practice of building and the use of buildings). The clock, which he calls "the world's slowest computer," is Brand's way of exploring long-term thinking and theories about the arrival and expectation of the future. Brand also founded the WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link), an early internet service provider and discussion medium (www.well.com). Check out Brand for free on Saturday, April 19, at 8 p.m. in the Richard White Auditorium on Duke's East Campus. And visit www.duke.edu/web/film/directions/Direast.html for directions.
Permitted HTML:
- To create paragraphs in your comment, type <p> at the start of a paragraph and </p> at the end of each paragraph.
- To create bold text, type <b>bolded text</b> (please note the closing tag, </b>).
- To create italicized text, type <i>italicized text</i> (please note the closing tag, </i>).
- Proper web addresses will automatically become links.
Latest in Best Bets
-
2.14 ~ 2.20
The Great Game and Two Trains Running; The Light in the Piazza; Celtic Concert Series; Two benefits at Cat's Cradle; Half-Cocked; Project Linus
- Feb 14, 2007
-
2.7 ~ 2.13
Dance Brazil; Dave Rawlings Machine; Hobex; Valentine's Day Jazz Festival at Hayti; Have-a-Heart for Independent Animal Rescue; Our Town
- Feb 7, 2007
-
1.31 ~ 2.6
Rewind; Alice Gerrard at the ArtsCenter's American Roots Series; Superbowl XLI parties; WKNC's 4th Annual Double Barrel Benefit at Kings; CDS's 11th Annual Documentary Happening
- Jan 31, 2007
- More »
