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  1. Reading "How Buildings Learn" by Stewart Brand broke my fixation on architectural permanence. The real value is in layers that change at different speeds, a truth that applies to institutions, software, and even relationships. #LongNow #SystemsThinking

  2. Reading "How Buildings Learn" by Stewart Brand broke my fixation on architectural permanence. The real value is in layers that change at different speeds, a truth that applies to institutions, software, and even relationships. #LongNow #SystemsThinking

  3. Reading "How Buildings Learn" by Stewart Brand broke my fixation on architectural permanence. The real value is in layers that change at different speeds, a truth that applies to institutions, software, and even relationships. #LongNow #SystemsThinking

  4. "…to be a fad, you must be liked. To be infrastructure, you must be required."
    Stu Brand’s pace layer model applied to investment strategy.
    longnow.org/p/70c7978a-6bbb-47

    #longnow @longnow

  5. "…to be a fad, you must be liked. To be infrastructure, you must be required."
    Stu Brand’s pace layer model applied to investment strategy.
    longnow.org/p/70c7978a-6bbb-47

    #longnow @longnow

  6. "…to be a fad, you must be liked. To be infrastructure, you must be required."
    Stu Brand’s pace layer model applied to investment strategy.
    longnow.org/p/70c7978a-6bbb-47

    #longnow @longnow

  7. "…to be a fad, you must be liked. To be infrastructure, you must be required."
    Stu Brand’s pace layer model applied to investment strategy.
    longnow.org/p/70c7978a-6bbb-47

    #longnow @longnow

  8. The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting – HackerNoon

    New Story, 1,290 reads

    The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting

    by Bruce Li, January 12th, 2026

    A Comprehensive Engineering and Operational Analysis of the Internet Archive

    Introduction: The Hum of History in the Fog

    If you stand quietly in the nave of the former Christian Science church on Funston Avenue in San Francisco’s Richmond District, you can hear the sound of the internet breathing. It is not the chaotic screech of a dial-up modem or the ping of a notification, but a steady, industrial hum—a low-frequency thrum generated by hundreds of spinning hard drives and the high-velocity fans that cool them. This is the headquarters of the Internet Archive, a non-profit library that has taken on the Sisyphean task of recording the entire digital history of human civilization.

    Internet Archive’s office in San Francisco

    Here, amidst the repurposed neoclassical columns and wooden pews of a building constructed to worship a different kind of permanence, lies the physical manifestation of the “virtual” world. We tend to think of the internet as an ethereal cloud, a place without geography or mass. But in this building, the internet has weight. It has heat. It requires electricity, maintenance, and a constant battle against the second law of thermodynamics. As of late 2025, this machine—collectively known as the Wayback Machine—has archived over one trillion web pages.1 It holds 99 petabytes of unique data, a number that expands to over 212 petabytes when accounting for backups and redundancy.3

    The scale of the operation is staggering, but the engineering challenge is even deeper. How do you build a machine that can ingest the sprawling, dynamic, and ever-changing World Wide Web in real-time? How do you store that data for centuries when the average hard drive lasts only a few years? And perhaps most critically, how do you pay for the electricity, the bandwidth, and the legal defense funds required to keep the lights on in an era where copyright law and digital preservation are locked in a high-stakes collision?

    This report delves into the mechanics of the Internet Archive with the precision of a teardown. We will strip back the chassis to examine the custom-built PetaBox servers that heat the building without air conditioning. We will trace the evolution of the web crawlers—from the early tape-based dumps of Alexa Internet to the sophisticated browser-based bots of 2025. We will analyze the financial ledger of this non-profit giant, exploring how it survives on a budget that is a rounding error for its Silicon Valley neighbors. And finally, we will look to the future, where the “Decentralized Web” (DWeb) promises to fragment the Archive into a million pieces to ensure it can never be destroyed.5

    To understand the Archive is to understand the physical reality of digital memory. It is a story of 20,000 hard drives, 45 miles of cabling, and a vision that began in 1996 with a simple, audacious goal: “Universal Access to All Knowledge”.7

    Part I: The Thermodynamics of Memory

    The PetaBox Architecture: Engineering for Density and Heat

    The heart of the Internet Archive is the PetaBox, a storage server custom-designed by the Archive’s staff to solve a specific problem: storing massive amounts of data with minimal power consumption and heat generation. In the early 2000s, off-the-shelf enterprise storage solutions from giants like EMC or NetApp were prohibitively expensive and power-hungry. They were designed for high-speed transactional data—like banking systems or stock exchanges—where milliseconds of latency matter. Archival storage, however, has different requirements. It needs to be dense, cheap, and low-power.

    Brewster Kahle, founder of Internet Archive (with the PetaBox behind him)

    Brewster Kahle, the Archive’s founder and a computer engineer who had previously founded the supercomputer company Thinking Machines, approached the problem with a different philosophy. Instead of high-performance RAID arrays, the Archive built the PetaBox using consumer-grade parts. The design philosophy was radical for its time: use “Just a Bunch of Disks” (JBOD) rather than expensive RAID controllers, and handle data redundancy via software rather than hardware.

    Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting | HackerNoon

    Tags: Architecture, Brewster Kahle, California, Fight Against Forgetting, HackerNoon, Internet Archive, Long Now, Memory, PetaBox, San Francisco, Storage, World Wide Web, WWW
    #Architecture #BrewsterKahle #California #FightAgainstForgetting #HackerNoon #InternetArchive #LongNow #Memory #PetaBox #SanFrancisco #Storage #WorldWideWeb #WWW
  9. The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting – HackerNoon

    New Story, 1,290 reads

    The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting

    by Bruce Li, January 12th, 2026

    A Comprehensive Engineering and Operational Analysis of the Internet Archive

    Introduction: The Hum of History in the Fog

    If you stand quietly in the nave of the former Christian Science church on Funston Avenue in San Francisco’s Richmond District, you can hear the sound of the internet breathing. It is not the chaotic screech of a dial-up modem or the ping of a notification, but a steady, industrial hum—a low-frequency thrum generated by hundreds of spinning hard drives and the high-velocity fans that cool them. This is the headquarters of the Internet Archive, a non-profit library that has taken on the Sisyphean task of recording the entire digital history of human civilization.

    Internet Archive’s office in San Francisco

    Here, amidst the repurposed neoclassical columns and wooden pews of a building constructed to worship a different kind of permanence, lies the physical manifestation of the “virtual” world. We tend to think of the internet as an ethereal cloud, a place without geography or mass. But in this building, the internet has weight. It has heat. It requires electricity, maintenance, and a constant battle against the second law of thermodynamics. As of late 2025, this machine—collectively known as the Wayback Machine—has archived over one trillion web pages.1 It holds 99 petabytes of unique data, a number that expands to over 212 petabytes when accounting for backups and redundancy.3

    The scale of the operation is staggering, but the engineering challenge is even deeper. How do you build a machine that can ingest the sprawling, dynamic, and ever-changing World Wide Web in real-time? How do you store that data for centuries when the average hard drive lasts only a few years? And perhaps most critically, how do you pay for the electricity, the bandwidth, and the legal defense funds required to keep the lights on in an era where copyright law and digital preservation are locked in a high-stakes collision?

    This report delves into the mechanics of the Internet Archive with the precision of a teardown. We will strip back the chassis to examine the custom-built PetaBox servers that heat the building without air conditioning. We will trace the evolution of the web crawlers—from the early tape-based dumps of Alexa Internet to the sophisticated browser-based bots of 2025. We will analyze the financial ledger of this non-profit giant, exploring how it survives on a budget that is a rounding error for its Silicon Valley neighbors. And finally, we will look to the future, where the “Decentralized Web” (DWeb) promises to fragment the Archive into a million pieces to ensure it can never be destroyed.5

    To understand the Archive is to understand the physical reality of digital memory. It is a story of 20,000 hard drives, 45 miles of cabling, and a vision that began in 1996 with a simple, audacious goal: “Universal Access to All Knowledge”.7

    Part I: The Thermodynamics of Memory

    The PetaBox Architecture: Engineering for Density and Heat

    The heart of the Internet Archive is the PetaBox, a storage server custom-designed by the Archive’s staff to solve a specific problem: storing massive amounts of data with minimal power consumption and heat generation. In the early 2000s, off-the-shelf enterprise storage solutions from giants like EMC or NetApp were prohibitively expensive and power-hungry. They were designed for high-speed transactional data—like banking systems or stock exchanges—where milliseconds of latency matter. Archival storage, however, has different requirements. It needs to be dense, cheap, and low-power.

    Brewster Kahle, founder of Internet Archive (with the PetaBox behind him)

    Brewster Kahle, the Archive’s founder and a computer engineer who had previously founded the supercomputer company Thinking Machines, approached the problem with a different philosophy. Instead of high-performance RAID arrays, the Archive built the PetaBox using consumer-grade parts. The design philosophy was radical for its time: use “Just a Bunch of Disks” (JBOD) rather than expensive RAID controllers, and handle data redundancy via software rather than hardware.

    Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting | HackerNoon

    Tags: Architecture, Brewster Kahle, California, Fight Against Forgetting, HackerNoon, Internet Archive, Long Now, Memory, PetaBox, San Francisco, Storage, World Wide Web, WWW
    #Architecture #BrewsterKahle #California #FightAgainstForgetting #HackerNoon #InternetArchive #LongNow #Memory #PetaBox #SanFrancisco #Storage #WorldWideWeb #WWW
  10. The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting – HackerNoon

    New Story, 1,290 reads

    The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting

    by Bruce Li, January 12th, 2026

    A Comprehensive Engineering and Operational Analysis of the Internet Archive

    Introduction: The Hum of History in the Fog

    If you stand quietly in the nave of the former Christian Science church on Funston Avenue in San Francisco’s Richmond District, you can hear the sound of the internet breathing. It is not the chaotic screech of a dial-up modem or the ping of a notification, but a steady, industrial hum—a low-frequency thrum generated by hundreds of spinning hard drives and the high-velocity fans that cool them. This is the headquarters of the Internet Archive, a non-profit library that has taken on the Sisyphean task of recording the entire digital history of human civilization.

    Internet Archive’s office in San Francisco

    Here, amidst the repurposed neoclassical columns and wooden pews of a building constructed to worship a different kind of permanence, lies the physical manifestation of the “virtual” world. We tend to think of the internet as an ethereal cloud, a place without geography or mass. But in this building, the internet has weight. It has heat. It requires electricity, maintenance, and a constant battle against the second law of thermodynamics. As of late 2025, this machine—collectively known as the Wayback Machine—has archived over one trillion web pages.1 It holds 99 petabytes of unique data, a number that expands to over 212 petabytes when accounting for backups and redundancy.3

    The scale of the operation is staggering, but the engineering challenge is even deeper. How do you build a machine that can ingest the sprawling, dynamic, and ever-changing World Wide Web in real-time? How do you store that data for centuries when the average hard drive lasts only a few years? And perhaps most critically, how do you pay for the electricity, the bandwidth, and the legal defense funds required to keep the lights on in an era where copyright law and digital preservation are locked in a high-stakes collision?

    This report delves into the mechanics of the Internet Archive with the precision of a teardown. We will strip back the chassis to examine the custom-built PetaBox servers that heat the building without air conditioning. We will trace the evolution of the web crawlers—from the early tape-based dumps of Alexa Internet to the sophisticated browser-based bots of 2025. We will analyze the financial ledger of this non-profit giant, exploring how it survives on a budget that is a rounding error for its Silicon Valley neighbors. And finally, we will look to the future, where the “Decentralized Web” (DWeb) promises to fragment the Archive into a million pieces to ensure it can never be destroyed.5

    To understand the Archive is to understand the physical reality of digital memory. It is a story of 20,000 hard drives, 45 miles of cabling, and a vision that began in 1996 with a simple, audacious goal: “Universal Access to All Knowledge”.7

    Part I: The Thermodynamics of Memory

    The PetaBox Architecture: Engineering for Density and Heat

    The heart of the Internet Archive is the PetaBox, a storage server custom-designed by the Archive’s staff to solve a specific problem: storing massive amounts of data with minimal power consumption and heat generation. In the early 2000s, off-the-shelf enterprise storage solutions from giants like EMC or NetApp were prohibitively expensive and power-hungry. They were designed for high-speed transactional data—like banking systems or stock exchanges—where milliseconds of latency matter. Archival storage, however, has different requirements. It needs to be dense, cheap, and low-power.

    Brewster Kahle, founder of Internet Archive (with the PetaBox behind him)

    Brewster Kahle, the Archive’s founder and a computer engineer who had previously founded the supercomputer company Thinking Machines, approached the problem with a different philosophy. Instead of high-performance RAID arrays, the Archive built the PetaBox using consumer-grade parts. The design philosophy was radical for its time: use “Just a Bunch of Disks” (JBOD) rather than expensive RAID controllers, and handle data redundancy via software rather than hardware.

    Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting | HackerNoon

    Tags: Architecture, Brewster Kahle, California, Fight Against Forgetting, HackerNoon, Internet Archive, Long Now, Memory, PetaBox, San Francisco, Storage, World Wide Web, WWW
    #Architecture #BrewsterKahle #California #FightAgainstForgetting #HackerNoon #InternetArchive #LongNow #Memory #PetaBox #SanFrancisco #Storage #WorldWideWeb #WWW
  11. The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting – HackerNoon

    New Story, 1,290 reads

    The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting

    by Bruce Li, January 12th, 2026

    A Comprehensive Engineering and Operational Analysis of the Internet Archive

    Introduction: The Hum of History in the Fog

    If you stand quietly in the nave of the former Christian Science church on Funston Avenue in San Francisco’s Richmond District, you can hear the sound of the internet breathing. It is not the chaotic screech of a dial-up modem or the ping of a notification, but a steady, industrial hum—a low-frequency thrum generated by hundreds of spinning hard drives and the high-velocity fans that cool them. This is the headquarters of the Internet Archive, a non-profit library that has taken on the Sisyphean task of recording the entire digital history of human civilization.

    Internet Archive’s office in San Francisco

    Here, amidst the repurposed neoclassical columns and wooden pews of a building constructed to worship a different kind of permanence, lies the physical manifestation of the “virtual” world. We tend to think of the internet as an ethereal cloud, a place without geography or mass. But in this building, the internet has weight. It has heat. It requires electricity, maintenance, and a constant battle against the second law of thermodynamics. As of late 2025, this machine—collectively known as the Wayback Machine—has archived over one trillion web pages.1 It holds 99 petabytes of unique data, a number that expands to over 212 petabytes when accounting for backups and redundancy.3

    The scale of the operation is staggering, but the engineering challenge is even deeper. How do you build a machine that can ingest the sprawling, dynamic, and ever-changing World Wide Web in real-time? How do you store that data for centuries when the average hard drive lasts only a few years? And perhaps most critically, how do you pay for the electricity, the bandwidth, and the legal defense funds required to keep the lights on in an era where copyright law and digital preservation are locked in a high-stakes collision?

    This report delves into the mechanics of the Internet Archive with the precision of a teardown. We will strip back the chassis to examine the custom-built PetaBox servers that heat the building without air conditioning. We will trace the evolution of the web crawlers—from the early tape-based dumps of Alexa Internet to the sophisticated browser-based bots of 2025. We will analyze the financial ledger of this non-profit giant, exploring how it survives on a budget that is a rounding error for its Silicon Valley neighbors. And finally, we will look to the future, where the “Decentralized Web” (DWeb) promises to fragment the Archive into a million pieces to ensure it can never be destroyed.5

    To understand the Archive is to understand the physical reality of digital memory. It is a story of 20,000 hard drives, 45 miles of cabling, and a vision that began in 1996 with a simple, audacious goal: “Universal Access to All Knowledge”.7

    Part I: The Thermodynamics of Memory

    The PetaBox Architecture: Engineering for Density and Heat

    The heart of the Internet Archive is the PetaBox, a storage server custom-designed by the Archive’s staff to solve a specific problem: storing massive amounts of data with minimal power consumption and heat generation. In the early 2000s, off-the-shelf enterprise storage solutions from giants like EMC or NetApp were prohibitively expensive and power-hungry. They were designed for high-speed transactional data—like banking systems or stock exchanges—where milliseconds of latency matter. Archival storage, however, has different requirements. It needs to be dense, cheap, and low-power.

    Brewster Kahle, founder of Internet Archive (with the PetaBox behind him)

    Brewster Kahle, the Archive’s founder and a computer engineer who had previously founded the supercomputer company Thinking Machines, approached the problem with a different philosophy. Instead of high-performance RAID arrays, the Archive built the PetaBox using consumer-grade parts. The design philosophy was radical for its time: use “Just a Bunch of Disks” (JBOD) rather than expensive RAID controllers, and handle data redundancy via software rather than hardware.

    Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting | HackerNoon

    #Architecture #BrewsterKahle #California #FightAgainstForgetting #HackerNoon #InternetArchive #LongNow #Memory #PetaBox #SanFrancisco #Storage #WorldWideWeb #WWW
  12. The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting – HackerNoon

    New Story, 1,290 reads

    The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting

    by Bruce Li, January 12th, 2026

    A Comprehensive Engineering and Operational Analysis of the Internet Archive

    Introduction: The Hum of History in the Fog

    If you stand quietly in the nave of the former Christian Science church on Funston Avenue in San Francisco’s Richmond District, you can hear the sound of the internet breathing. It is not the chaotic screech of a dial-up modem or the ping of a notification, but a steady, industrial hum—a low-frequency thrum generated by hundreds of spinning hard drives and the high-velocity fans that cool them. This is the headquarters of the Internet Archive, a non-profit library that has taken on the Sisyphean task of recording the entire digital history of human civilization.

    Internet Archive’s office in San Francisco

    Here, amidst the repurposed neoclassical columns and wooden pews of a building constructed to worship a different kind of permanence, lies the physical manifestation of the “virtual” world. We tend to think of the internet as an ethereal cloud, a place without geography or mass. But in this building, the internet has weight. It has heat. It requires electricity, maintenance, and a constant battle against the second law of thermodynamics. As of late 2025, this machine—collectively known as the Wayback Machine—has archived over one trillion web pages.1 It holds 99 petabytes of unique data, a number that expands to over 212 petabytes when accounting for backups and redundancy.3

    The scale of the operation is staggering, but the engineering challenge is even deeper. How do you build a machine that can ingest the sprawling, dynamic, and ever-changing World Wide Web in real-time? How do you store that data for centuries when the average hard drive lasts only a few years? And perhaps most critically, how do you pay for the electricity, the bandwidth, and the legal defense funds required to keep the lights on in an era where copyright law and digital preservation are locked in a high-stakes collision?

    This report delves into the mechanics of the Internet Archive with the precision of a teardown. We will strip back the chassis to examine the custom-built PetaBox servers that heat the building without air conditioning. We will trace the evolution of the web crawlers—from the early tape-based dumps of Alexa Internet to the sophisticated browser-based bots of 2025. We will analyze the financial ledger of this non-profit giant, exploring how it survives on a budget that is a rounding error for its Silicon Valley neighbors. And finally, we will look to the future, where the “Decentralized Web” (DWeb) promises to fragment the Archive into a million pieces to ensure it can never be destroyed.5

    To understand the Archive is to understand the physical reality of digital memory. It is a story of 20,000 hard drives, 45 miles of cabling, and a vision that began in 1996 with a simple, audacious goal: “Universal Access to All Knowledge”.7

    Part I: The Thermodynamics of Memory

    The PetaBox Architecture: Engineering for Density and Heat

    The heart of the Internet Archive is the PetaBox, a storage server custom-designed by the Archive’s staff to solve a specific problem: storing massive amounts of data with minimal power consumption and heat generation. In the early 2000s, off-the-shelf enterprise storage solutions from giants like EMC or NetApp were prohibitively expensive and power-hungry. They were designed for high-speed transactional data—like banking systems or stock exchanges—where milliseconds of latency matter. Archival storage, however, has different requirements. It needs to be dense, cheap, and low-power.

    Brewster Kahle, founder of Internet Archive (with the PetaBox behind him)

    Brewster Kahle, the Archive’s founder and a computer engineer who had previously founded the supercomputer company Thinking Machines, approached the problem with a different philosophy. Instead of high-performance RAID arrays, the Archive built the PetaBox using consumer-grade parts. The design philosophy was radical for its time: use “Just a Bunch of Disks” (JBOD) rather than expensive RAID controllers, and handle data redundancy via software rather than hardware.

    Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting | HackerNoon

    #Architecture #BrewsterKahle #California #FightAgainstForgetting #HackerNoon #InternetArchive #LongNow #Memory #PetaBox #SanFrancisco #Storage #WorldWideWeb #WWW
  13. I got hyper fixated in a #LongNow talk about symbiogenesis and the chatbots and so I transcribed it because I couldn't find any transcription. reboil.com/mediawiki/What_is_I

  14. I got hyper fixated in a #LongNow talk about symbiogenesis and the chatbots and so I transcribed it because I couldn't find any transcription. reboil.com/mediawiki/What_is_I

  15. I got hyper fixated in a #LongNow talk about symbiogenesis and the chatbots and so I transcribed it because I couldn't find any transcription. reboil.com/mediawiki/What_is_I

  16. I got hyper fixated in a #LongNow talk about symbiogenesis and the chatbots and so I transcribed it because I couldn't find any transcription. reboil.com/mediawiki/What_is_I

  17. I got hyper fixated in a #LongNow talk about symbiogenesis and the chatbots and so I transcribed it because I couldn't find any transcription. reboil.com/mediawiki/What_is_I

  18. In which @Katecrawford takes the #LongNow stage talking "Mapping Empires" - YouTube LiveStream available, on 2pm AEDT so a good time-zone for Australians!

    #STS

    I think @attacus might like this

    longnow.org/talks/02025-crawfo

  19. In which @Katecrawford takes the #LongNow stage talking "Mapping Empires" - YouTube LiveStream available, on 2pm AEDT so a good time-zone for Australians!

    #STS

    I think @attacus might like this

    longnow.org/talks/02025-crawfo

  20. In which @Katecrawford takes the #LongNow stage talking "Mapping Empires" - YouTube LiveStream available, on 2pm AEDT so a good time-zone for Australians!

    #STS

    I think @attacus might like this

    longnow.org/talks/02025-crawfo

  21. In which @Katecrawford takes the #LongNow stage talking "Mapping Empires" - YouTube LiveStream available, on 2pm AEDT so a good time-zone for Australians!

    #STS

    I think @attacus might like this

    longnow.org/talks/02025-crawfo

  22. In which @Katecrawford takes the #LongNow stage talking "Mapping Empires" - YouTube LiveStream available, on 2pm AEDT so a good time-zone for Australians!

    #STS

    I think @attacus might like this

    longnow.org/talks/02025-crawfo

  23. If you are inquisitive, I think you'll find this Seminar About Longterm Thinking (first link) at the Long Now Foundation very interesting. It's about emergent behaviour, replication and life, symbio-genesis, and their relation to computation. It's a great follow on to the previous talk (second link) about looking at life from the point of view of information theory.

    #SALT #LongNow #computation #life

    youtube.com/watch?v=KhSJuqDUJME

    youtube.com/watch?v=zhzxQraB2m0

  24. If you are inquisitive, I think you'll find this Seminar About Longterm Thinking (first link) at the Long Now Foundation very interesting. It's about emergent behaviour, replication and life, symbio-genesis, and their relation to computation. It's a great follow on to the previous talk (second link) about looking at life from the point of view of information theory.

    #SALT #LongNow #computation #life

    youtube.com/watch?v=KhSJuqDUJME

    youtube.com/watch?v=zhzxQraB2m0

  25. If you are inquisitive, I think you'll find this Seminar About Longterm Thinking (first link) at the Long Now Foundation very interesting. It's about emergent behaviour, replication and life, symbio-genesis, and their relation to computation. It's a great follow on to the previous talk (second link) about looking at life from the point of view of information theory.

    #SALT #LongNow #computation #life

    youtube.com/watch?v=KhSJuqDUJME

    youtube.com/watch?v=zhzxQraB2m0

  26. If you are inquisitive, I think you'll find this Seminar About Longterm Thinking (first link) at the Long Now Foundation very interesting. It's about emergent behaviour, replication and life, symbio-genesis, and their relation to computation. It's a great follow on to the previous talk (second link) about looking at life from the point of view of information theory.

    #SALT #LongNow #computation #life

    youtube.com/watch?v=KhSJuqDUJME

    youtube.com/watch?v=zhzxQraB2m0

  27. If you are inquisitive, I think you'll find this Seminar About Longterm Thinking (first link) at the Long Now Foundation very interesting. It's about emergent behaviour, replication and life, symbio-genesis, and their relation to computation. It's a great follow on to the previous talk (second link) about looking at life from the point of view of information theory.

    #SALT #LongNow #computation #life

    youtube.com/watch?v=KhSJuqDUJME

    youtube.com/watch?v=zhzxQraB2m0

  28. #ClimateResearch, #ClimateMitigation and #ClimateAdaption are experiencing hurricane conditions in some parts of the world today (hello USA) but... play the long game. Here's a review and perspective with a touch of #LongNow thinking:

    "All possible—but currently unknown—worlds in 2050, with a larger global population, unprecedented climate conditions with higher temperatures, more frequent extreme weather events, sea level rise, disrupted ecosystems, changes in habitability and increased climate-induced displacement and migration, and the emergence of new geopolitical tensions, will require limiting society’s vulnerability both through mitigation measures to minimize further warming and through the implementation of innovative adaptation initiatives. The development of a skillful climate information system, based on the most advanced Earth system science, will be required to inform decision-makers and the public around the world about the local and remote impacts of climate change, and guide them in optimizing their adaptation and mitigation agendas. This information will also help manage renewable resources in a warmer world and strengthen resilience to the expected interconnected impacts of climate change. "

    frontiersin.org/journals/clima

  29. #ClimateResearch, #ClimateMitigation and #ClimateAdaption are experiencing hurricane conditions in some parts of the world today (hello USA) but... play the long game. Here's a review and perspective with a touch of #LongNow thinking:

    "All possible—but currently unknown—worlds in 2050, with a larger global population, unprecedented climate conditions with higher temperatures, more frequent extreme weather events, sea level rise, disrupted ecosystems, changes in habitability and increased climate-induced displacement and migration, and the emergence of new geopolitical tensions, will require limiting society’s vulnerability both through mitigation measures to minimize further warming and through the implementation of innovative adaptation initiatives. The development of a skillful climate information system, based on the most advanced Earth system science, will be required to inform decision-makers and the public around the world about the local and remote impacts of climate change, and guide them in optimizing their adaptation and mitigation agendas. This information will also help manage renewable resources in a warmer world and strengthen resilience to the expected interconnected impacts of climate change. "

    frontiersin.org/journals/clima

  30. #ClimateResearch, #ClimateMitigation and #ClimateAdaption are experiencing hurricane conditions in some parts of the world today (hello USA) but... play the long game. Here's a review and perspective with a touch of #LongNow thinking:

    "All possible—but currently unknown—worlds in 2050, with a larger global population, unprecedented climate conditions with higher temperatures, more frequent extreme weather events, sea level rise, disrupted ecosystems, changes in habitability and increased climate-induced displacement and migration, and the emergence of new geopolitical tensions, will require limiting society’s vulnerability both through mitigation measures to minimize further warming and through the implementation of innovative adaptation initiatives. The development of a skillful climate information system, based on the most advanced Earth system science, will be required to inform decision-makers and the public around the world about the local and remote impacts of climate change, and guide them in optimizing their adaptation and mitigation agendas. This information will also help manage renewable resources in a warmer world and strengthen resilience to the expected interconnected impacts of climate change. "

    frontiersin.org/journals/clima

  31. #ClimateResearch, #ClimateMitigation and #ClimateAdaption are experiencing hurricane conditions in some parts of the world today (hello USA) but... play the long game. Here's a review and perspective with a touch of #LongNow thinking:

    "All possible—but currently unknown—worlds in 2050, with a larger global population, unprecedented climate conditions with higher temperatures, more frequent extreme weather events, sea level rise, disrupted ecosystems, changes in habitability and increased climate-induced displacement and migration, and the emergence of new geopolitical tensions, will require limiting society’s vulnerability both through mitigation measures to minimize further warming and through the implementation of innovative adaptation initiatives. The development of a skillful climate information system, based on the most advanced Earth system science, will be required to inform decision-makers and the public around the world about the local and remote impacts of climate change, and guide them in optimizing their adaptation and mitigation agendas. This information will also help manage renewable resources in a warmer world and strengthen resilience to the expected interconnected impacts of climate change. "

    frontiersin.org/journals/clima