Kevin Kelly presents Technium Unbound

What comes after the Internet? What is bigger than the web? What will produce more wealth than all the startups to date? The answer is a planetary super-organism comprised of 4 billion mobile phones, 80 quintillion transistor chips, a million miles of fiber optic cables, and 6 billion human minds all wired together. The whole thing acts like a single organism, with its own behavior and character -- but at a scale we have little experience with.

This is more than just a metaphor. Kelly takes the idea of a global super-organism seriously by describing what we know about it so far, how it is growing, where its boundaries are, and what it will mean for us as individuals and collectively. Both the smallest one-person enterprises today, and the largest mega-corporations on Earth, will have to learn to how this Technium operates, and how to exploit it.

Seminar hosted by Stewart Brand
http://www.longnow.org/people/board/sb1/

Wednesday November 12, 02014
Doors open 7:00pm, talk at 7:30pm lasting ~1.5 hours

Advance Tickets Recommended - Tickets are $15
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Long Now Members get complimentary tickets
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Live Audio Stream of the Seminar for Long Now Members
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SFJAZZ Center
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There will be a Long Now Reception following the Seminar.

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About the Series:
The Seminars About Long-term Thinking were started in 02003 to build a coherent, compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking, to help nudge civilization toward Long Now's goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare.

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