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To think usefully about humanity’s future, you have to bear everything in mind simultaneously. Nobody has managed that better than Martin Rees in his succinct summing-up book: ON THE FUTURE: Prospects for Humanity. As the recent President of the Royal Society (and longtime Royal Astronomer), Rees is current with all the relevant science and technology. At 76, he has seen a lot of theories about the future come and go. He has expert comfort in thinking at cosmic scale and teaching the excitement of that perspective. Civilization’s greatest danger comes from civilization itself, which now operates at planetary scale. Consequently, he says, to head off the hazards and realize humanity’s potentially fabulous prospects, "We need to think globally, we need to think rationally, we need to think long-term.” And we can. *"*Prospects for Humanity*," *Martin Rees, *SFJAZZ Center, Hayes Valley,* San Francisco, *7pm, *Monday January 14*. *The show starts promptly at 7:30pm. • 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: Martin Rees, "Prospects for Humanity" Long Now talk on 1/14 https://goo.gl/H3mJYy Talks coming up: February 25 - John Brockman, Possible Minds <http://longnow.org/seminars/02019/feb/25/possible-minds/> March 13 - Chip Conley, The Modern Elder and the Intergenerational Workplace <http://longnow.org/seminars/02019/mar/13/modern-elder-and-intergenerational-workplace/> April 2 - Jeff Goodell, The Water Will Come <http://longnow.org/seminars/02019/apr/02/water-will-come/> 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 or danie...@longnow.org. You are welcome to forward this notice to anyone you think might be interested. --Stewart Brand -- Stewart Brand -- s...@longnow.org The Long Now Foundation -- http://longnow.org/ Seminars & downloads -- http://longnow.org/seminars/ Interval 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 _______________________________________________ SALT mailing list unsubscribe / change email: http://list.longnow.org/mailman/listinfo/salt
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