Concepts Long-term Thinking The Big Here Digital Dark Age Organizational Continuity Futures Millennial Precedent Archives Long Shorts Long News Projects Announcements Long Now Talks The Clock of the Long Now The Rosetta Project The Interval Long Bets Revive & Restore PanLex Manual For Civilization Disciplines Art Business Cities Civilization Climate Change Computing Culture Economics Energy Environment Evolution Genetics Globalization Government History Infrastructure Language Psychology Science Science Fiction Space Technology Year 02022 02021 02020 02019 02018 02017 02016 02015 02014 02013 02012 02011 02010 02009 02008 02007 02006 02005 02004 OLDER Announcements Nils Gilman, "Deviant Globalization" By Danielle Engelman Climate Change Eight Thoughts About Timescale By Alexander Rose Culture Man the toolmaker By Kirk Citron Long Now Talks Nils Gilman Deviant Globalization Business Buffett's longest bet looking better By Alexander Rose Environment Slow Science By Alexander Rose Civilization How to Prevent the Next Global Crisis By Alexander Rose Economics Debt: The First Five Thousand Years Debt has always involved institutions that control debt’s potentially catastrophic social consequences. It is only in the current era that we have seen the creation of a planetary administrative system that protects the interests of creditors. By David Graeber Art Maps of Deep Time By Alexander Rose Government Thinking Too Long-term? By Alexander Rose
Economics Debt: The First Five Thousand Years Debt has always involved institutions that control debt’s potentially catastrophic social consequences. It is only in the current era that we have seen the creation of a planetary administrative system that protects the interests of creditors. By David Graeber