The fantastic author and journalist Michael Pollan is speaking in San Francisco tonight at an event being put on by the Long Now Foundation. Despite the Long Now Foundation being based in San Francisco, I had never heard of them before. I went to their site and their projects are very "forward" thinking...literally. One of their ventures, Long Bets, provides an arena for people to make bets on future events. The goal is for the process to create accurate predictions.
The Long Now Foundation is attempting to launch the "Long News" project, which will try and determine what the most important stories of the week are. The ones that will transcend time and continue to be relevant five or ten years from now are deemed most important. I look forward to following this and seeing what they come up with. As the Long News Project attempts to take off it will begin in the form of blogposts which can be read here.
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