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Benjamin Bratton: A Philosophy of Planetary Computation

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking by The Long Now Foundation

Mar 20, 202557:47Society & Culture

We find ourselves in a pre-paradigmatic moment in which our technology has outpaced our theories of what to do with it. The task of philosophy today is to catch up. In his Long Now Talk, Philosopher of Technology Benjami...

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