Time / Future

We have been using earth as if it is an infinite source of raw materials and an infinite sink for our waste, but it is finite in both cases ultimately accelerating toward a global disaster of depletion and extinction.
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Big Questions

If you could go back in time, what one piece of advice would you give your younger self?

Are we being good ancestors to the future Earth?

How can humanity survive the next century of climate change, a growing population, and emerging technological threats?

Big Picture

Big Picture / Technology / Measurement, Observation, Control / Time

Time and its role in thought and action

Contemporary philosophies of time

Time as systemized in scientific society

Time measurement: general concepts
- Fundamental time scales
- Relativistic effects
- Clocks
- Time units and calendars
  - ancient & religious calendars: new moon
  - basic unit of computation in a calendar is the day
  - linear: The Linear Calendar
  - western Calendar: Gregorian
Rotational time
Dynamical time
Atomic time
Pulsar time
Radiometric time
Cosmology and uniform time

Further reading and study

acceleration: The Great Acceleration
classic: Future Shock Toffler
energy: The Future of Energy
food: The Future of Food NG
grand canyon: The Man Who Walked Through Time Fletcher
long-term: The Clock Of The Long Now Brand
monetizing personal information: Who Owns the Future? Lanier
NYC: Space/Time Directory
future: On the Future Rees
teaching/learning about time: Time Activity Set For Kids
the accelerating arc of life: Why Time Flies Burdick
universe: A Brief History of Time Hawking
upsides/downsides: WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us O’Reilly
what lies below us: Underland Macfarlane

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