Recent images from The Interval. http://TheInterval.org
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AT&T future of telcoms video 1962, directed by Jetsons writer #5yrsago
Paleofuture features a smashing AT&T industrial video called “Talking of Tomorrow,” about the future of telecommunications, directed by Chuck Couch, who wrote The Jetsons. As Paleo notes, the animation style is reminiscent of Jay Ward’s Rocky and Bullwinkle, and features a teleworking engineering exec whose videoconferencing takes place from a soundproof room attached to his house: “Business, school and play in this retrofuturistic utopia all depend on the highly advanced communications technologies brought to you by Bell Telephone Labs. Documents – or "business materials” as they call them – are exchanged by ‘telephonic machines.’ Lasers transmit phone calls and TV shows from space. Data processing machines… um… process data.“
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At the Long Now Interval, about to drink a recreation of the single-malt whiskey carried on Shackleton’s 1907 Antarctic expedition. #OddSalon #LongNow #Interval #whiskey #Antarctica #Shackleton (at The Interval at Long Now)
More about this past event at http://intervalantarctica.eventbrite.com/
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Oblique Strategies by Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt
original handwritten cards
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The Interval at Long Now
Full resolution image here: https://flic.kr/p/C1HytJ
Great shot--thanks for coming by The Interval!
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Baroque Czech Library is the Most Beautiful Bibliotheca in the World
The Klementinum library in Prague, Czech Republic houses some of the richest European literature and historical book collections. Apart from that, it is also one of the most beautiful libraries in the world, with its classical decor and luxurious furnishings which are rare works of art themselves. It holds over 20,000 books and opened its stately doors as a part of the Jesuit university. The Klementinum has been well preserved, with its detailed wood carved shelves in pristine condition, its tiled floors sparkling and picturesque hallways lined with thousand of years of knowledge.
Source: culturenlifestyle.com
Photos from recent talks at The Interval at Long Now in San Francisco.
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Last night was our first talk of 02016. Kirk Citron: The Long News. Many more great events are coming up, details here: http://www.theinterval.org/events/
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Announcing the Fund of the Long Now, Long Now’s first step in becoming a truly long-term institution. Make a tax-deductible gift and help long-term thinking grow for centuries…
“Cocktail Mechanics” class at The Interval in January
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Here’s the latest from Long Now Executive Director Alexander Rose, and then a short documentary on our 10,000 Year Clock Project featuring never before seen images of the design and construction of the Clock; plus interviews with Danny Hillis, Stewart Brand and Alexander. We hope you enjoy it!
For our 20th anniversary we are starting a fund that will help Long Now truly be a long-term, multi-millennial institution. Support Long Now with a tax deductible gift and help something very long-term grow: http://longnow.org/donate/
A few weeks back at The Interval the distillers from St. George Spirits were interviewed as part of the West Coast Cocktails Oral History Project. Check out these great photos by photographer Michael David Rose.
More about the event here.
Hugh Howey speaks at The Interval: The Library that Lasts. Theinterval.org
The multi-millennial time scale of The Rosetta Disk is intended to raise questions in the here and now about the long-term archival strategies for the precious resources we are working so hard to collect and preserve for the future!
Second in a series by Rosetta Project Director Laura Welcher (first post is here)
The First Step In Long-term Archiving Is To Have A Plan For Archiving...
In the past, when researchers created language documentation on paper or made analog audio recordings, it would be possible to set these resources aside and ignore them for years, or even a lifetime. This practice was previously very common. Eventually, some of these materials were given to language archives or in the case of large collections, archives were created to preserve and provide access to them. While this scenario is far from ideal, at least once the materials were kept in reasonable condition, they remained in a more or less stable and usable condition.
Today, we create digital language documentation. And while there are many advantages to digital formats, given rapid changes in technology, digital resources that are ignored for even a few years become vulnerable and potentially inaccessible. As producers of digital language resources, we must be diligent in their care if we want them to last. This diligence need not be the sole responsibility of the researcher. In fact, a much better plan is for the researchers to partner with a language archive that will be the destination for the resources the researcher will create.
Some researchers have a destination archive from the beginning, as condition of a grant that requires that archiving be part of resource creation. Others may not —perhaps there is no designated destination archive, or they may be working outside of an institutional structure that provides archival services, or they may be working on a language variety that isn’t supported by existing regional archives. In these cases it is still possible to partner with a language archive, and increasingly there are good options to do so. (Also, new business models are being created for archives that allow them to support digital resources outside of their primary domain of collection.)
Source: rosettaproject.org