The Deep History of the Information Age

Alex Wright

a Long Now Seminar

The Long Now runs a great seminar/lecture series that has touched on a lot of odd and eclectic topics: from when we will pop off into a singularity (or not), the nature of slums, the million year history of climate change, how best to make a simulation, to how we will store our information for years to come. Alex Wright will be talking about the last. Its a fascinating and complex subject. This text may be all digital, but those bits have to be stored on or in something, and they have to be readable. And if you spend five minutes thinking about all the mediums of storage you've used in the last 20 years or so, you'll recognize it as a thorny problem... Of course he could be talking about something slightly different, and I might be interested just cause I am a geek. But perhaps you are too? "**More info here on the Seminar and the Long Now Foundation**":http://longnow.org/projects/seminars/

Friday, Aug 17, 2007

Doors 7pm; talk at 7:30; Lasts ~1.5 hours ( add to calendar )

The talk is in the Cowell Theatre, which is in one of the buildings built on a peir out over the water (there are three, the theatre is in the middle one). Directions

Laguna street and Marina Boulevard, San Francisco, CA

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