Long Now co-founder Danny Hillis and SALT speaker Steven Johnson recommend Juan Benet as an exceptional theorist as well as player in shaping how world communications can become ever safer and freer over time. Blockchain is only part of it.
"We're a century into our computing phase transition,” Benet says. "The latest stages have created astonishing powers for individuals, groups, and our species as a whole. We are also faced with accumulating dangers. In light of the promethean fire that is computing, we must prevent bad outcomes and lock in good ones to build robust foundations for our knowledge, and a safe future. There is much we can do in the short-term to secure the long-term. "I come from the front lines of computing platform design to share a number of new super-powers at our disposal, some old challenges that are now soluble, and some new open problems. In this next decade, we’ll need to leverage peer-to-peer networks, crypto-economics, blockchains, Open Source, Open Services, decentralization, incentive-structure engineering, and so much more to ensure the short-term safety and long-term flourishing of humanity.” Juan Benet is the inventor of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)---a new protocol which uses content-addressing to make the web faster, safer, and more open—and the creator of Filecoin, a cryptocurrency-incentivized storage market "Long Term Infostructure," Juan Benet, SFJAZZ Center, Hayes Valley, San Francisco, 7pm, Monday August 6. The show starts promptly at 7:30pm. To be sure of a seat: • Long Now Members <https://longnow.org/membership/> can use the discount code on the Benet Seminar page to reserve 2 free seats <http://longnow.org/seminars/02018/aug/06/long-term-info-structure/>. • You can purchase tickets for $25 each <http://longnow.org/seminars/02018/aug/06/long-term-info-structure/>. • Seminar at SFJAZZ Center <http://www.sfjazz.org/visit/directions> 201 Franklin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 • Tune into the live stream <http://longnow.org/live/> for Long Now Members at 7:30 PT - become a member <https://longnow.org/membership/> for just $8 a month. Share this talk: Juan Benet, "Long Term Infostructure" Long Now talk on 8/6 https://goo.gl/AB123q <https://goo.gl/AB123q> Talks coming up: September 12 - Julia Galef, Soldiers and Scouts: Why our minds weren't built for truth, and how we can change that <http://longnow.org/seminars/02018/sep/12/soldiers-and-scouts-why-our-minds-werent-built-truth-and-how-we-can-change/> October 29 - Mary Lou Jepsen, Toward Practical Telepathy <http://longnow.org/seminars/02018/oct/29/toward-practical-telepathy/>November 19 - Niall Ferguson, Networks and Power <http://longnow.org/seminars/02018/nov/19/networks-and-power/> High-quality videos of the talks and other benefits (such as priority tickets) are available to Long Now members. Membership, which starts at $8/month ($96/year), helps support the series and other Long Now projects. Joinable here <https://longnow.org/membership/>. This is one of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking (SALT) organized by The Long Now Foundation. Free audio and my summaries of all previous talks are available for download here <http://longnow.org/seminars/> (or stay up to date with the podcast here <http://longnow.org/seminars/podcast/>). You'll find a range of long-term thinking items on our Blog <http://blog.longnow.org/> (RSS <http://feeds.feedburner.com/longnow>). If you would like to be notified by email (like this one) of forthcoming talks, go here <http://list.longnow.org/mailman/listinfo/salt> to sign up online. Any questions, contact Danielle Engelman at Long Now -- 415-561-6582 x1 <tel:415-561-6582%20x1> or danie...@longnow.org <mailto:danie...@longnow.org>. You are welcome to forward this note to anyone you think might be interested. --Stewart Brand s...@longnow.org ----- The Long Now Foundation -- http://longnow.org/ <http://longnow.org/> Seminars & downloads -- http://longnow.org/seminars/ <http://longnow.org/seminars/> Interval Events -- http://theinterval.org/events/ <http://theinterval.org/events/> •Twitter <https://twitter.com/longnow> - up to the minute info on tickets and events •Long Now Blog <http://blog.longnow.org/> - daily updates on events and ideas •Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/longnow> - stay in touch through our fan page
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