The Clock Of The Long Now

The design and construction of the Clock of the Long Now give Stewart Brand a frame for a book about long-term perspective: how to gain it, how to use it, and when to keep it visible or hidden. Its central question is how long-term thinking can become automatic and common rather than difficult and rare, at a time when culture is speeding up beyond its ability to be measured. He combines an account of the clock's technology with philosophical inquiry. Brand, trained as a biologist and an army officer, was among the founders of the Long Now Foundation, alongside Brian Eno, Esther Dyson, Kevin Kelly, Daniel Hillis and others, and co-founded the Global Business Network.

Evernote CEO Phil Libin said it is probably the book that has influenced him most.