{"id":17316,"date":"2016-06-09T16:52:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T15:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=17316"},"modified":"2016-06-09T16:52:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T15:52:48","slug":"seminars-about-long-term-thinking-series-now-free-in-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2016\/06\/09\/seminars-about-long-term-thinking-series-now-free-in-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminars About Long-term Thinking series – now free in video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those who can do RSS have long been able to wrangle .MP3 audio<\/a> of The Long Now’s series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking, without having to install iTunes. Now the video versions of the SALT talks are available to all to view<\/a> — with a donation merely ‘invited’ and only the video file download and HD versions kept back for Long Now members. <\/p>\n

These are long<\/em> talks, not short TED-like skits. So there are a few SALT talks one might want to avoid, mostly because the speakers thought they could just trot out their usual spiel — Tim O’Reilly waffling and riffing on, as if he were at just another trade show. Anne Neuberger making a creaky attempt to sell the NSA to the Long Now crowd. But 95% of the talks are excellent. <\/p>\n

The highlights of the SALT series, in my view, are:<\/p>\n

* Stephen Pyne: Ecological wildfire<\/a> (2016)
\n* Neil Gaiman: How stories last<\/a> (2015)
\n* Stewart Brand, Paul Saffo: Pace Layers thinking<\/a> (2015)
\n* Jesse Ausubel: Nature is rebounding<\/a> (2015)
\n* Brian Eno, Danny Hillis: The Long Now, now<\/a> (2014)
\n* Stefan Kroepelin: Civilization’s mysterious desert cradle – rediscovering the deep Sahara<\/a> (2014)
\n* Stewart Brand: Reviving extinct species<\/a> (2013)
\n* Steven Pinker: The decline of violence<\/a> (2012)
\n* Matt Ridley: Deep optimism<\/a> (2011)
\n* Rachel Sussman: The world’s oldest living organisms<\/a> (2010)
\n* Peter Diamandis: Long-term X-Prizes<\/a> (2008)
\n* Freeman Dyson and family: The difficulty of looking far ahead<\/a> (2005)
\n* Brian Eno: The Long Now<\/a> (2003. Poor audio, I seem to remember)<\/p>\n

The website is obviously straining under the load, as the news of the free videos percolates through social media. Which, I suspect, means the above links may be unresponsive until the Twittergasm is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those who can do RSS have long been able to wrangle .MP3 audio of The Long Now’s series of Seminars …<\/p>\n

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