The Clock of the Long Now

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The Clock of the Long Now (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

At a time when a human generation—in terms of cultural interests—has shrunk from thirty-three years to three or four, when a computer generation—the technological symbol of the end of the twentieth century—is only a few months, when corporations worry no further than the next quarterly report, when the dominant clarion call appears to be “the future is now,” when the human race is in such a hurry to celebrate the start of a new millennium that it insists—in the face of all mathematical and historical logic—in doing it a year early, Stewart Brand pleads for the human race...

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