SOCIAL: Lecture: creative social collapse FRIDAY Feb. 13

[Adrian.Cotter at sierraclub.org]

The Long Now has been learning from its crowds of late, and has now 
instituted a ticketing system. This one on friday is going to be a full 
house as well methinks.

If anyone wants to go to this who is not already member, please let me 
know and I'll reserve a ticket for you...

(or you can purchase on here:)
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/55707

Thanks,

+ Adrian Cotter
+ Senior Webmaster
+ Sierra Club National
+ 415.977.5671
----- Forwarded by Adrian Cotter/Sierraclub on 02/09/2009 10:47 AM -----

Stewart Brand <sb at gbn.org> 
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[Note 2 ways to assure yourself a seat, below]

A close observer of the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe 
twenty years ago, engineer Dmitry Orlov finds a similar sequence of events 
taking shape in America. His savagely humorous presentation spells out how 
Russia was better prepared than the US is now for the stages of 
collapse--- which begin with financial meltdown.

Renewal awaits on the other side of collapse, and there are ways to hasten 
that process. Orlov is the author of Reinventing Collapse: Soviet Example 
and American Prospects (02008).

"Social Collapse Best Practices," Dmitry Orlov, Cowell Theater, Fort Mason
, San Francisco, 7pm, FRIDAY, February 13.  The show starts promptly at 
7:30pm.  Admission is free---if there's room.  To be sure of a seat, 
become a Long Now member and reserve a seat or order an advance ticket 
($10).


Recent SALT talks have overflowed, and latecomers had to be turned away. 
To head off the problem, here's the new arrangement:

  Long Now Members can reserve a seat +1 guest HERE (Use "discount code" 
from your email or the Members page at the Long Now site under the 
"Events" tab.)
 
  You can purchase tickets for $10 HERE
 
  Please note, Members and Ticket holders: if you arrive after 7:25pm we 
may not be able to seat you in the theater.
 
  All tickets and RSVP's are Will-Call; advance sales and RSVP's end at 
3:00pm on Feb. 13.
 
 Please allow time for traffic, parking, walking to the theater, and 
check-in.
 
 The Seminar will be simulcast in the lobby with free overflow seating, 
and any extra seats in the theater will be released right before the 
lecture starts.


Talks coming up:

Mar. 20 (Friday) - Daniel Everett, "Endangered Languages, Lost Knowledge 
and the Future"
April (sometime) - Mayor Gavin Newsom, "Cities and Time"
May 5 (TUESDAY) - Michael Pollan, "Deep Agriculture"
May 18 (MONDAY) - Paul Romer, "A Theory of History, with an Application"
Aug. 17 (MONDAY) - Wayne Clough, "Smithsonian Forever"
Sep. 14 (MONDAY) - Arthur Ganson, "Machines and the Breath of Time"
Oct. 9 (Friday) - Stewart Brand, "Rethinking Green"
Nov. 18 (WEDNESDAY) - Sander van der Leeuw, "The Long and Short of It"

Special Long Now event:  On Tuesday February 17, 02009, from 7-10pm.  Join 
author Bruce Sterling, technology pundit Paul Saffo, and other special 
guests on the UC Berkeley campus for the Funeral for the Analog Television 
Signal. Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant Ave., Berkeley, CA. Also note: In 
a soap-operatic melodrama fit for TV itself, Congress has changed the 
official date for the switch to digital television at the 11th hour; 
however our event will proceed on Feb. 17 because we prefer to bury a 
fresh corpse rather than wait for the walking dead to fall over (This URL 
has all the details: http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/tvfuneral )

High-quality videos of the talks and other benefits (such as guaranteed 
seats) are available to Long Now members.  Membership, which costs 
$8/month ($96/year), helps support the series and other Long Now projects. 
 Joinable here.

This is one of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking 
(SALT) organized by The Long Now Foundation.  Free audios and my summaries 
of all previous talks are available for download here (or stay up to date 
with the Podcast here).  You'll find a range of long-term thinking items 
on our Blog (RSS).  If you would like to be notified by email (like this 
one) of forthcoming talks, go here to sign up online.  Any questions, 
contact Danielle Engelman at Long Now--- 415-561-6582 x1, 
danielle at longnow.org.

You are welcome to forward this note to anyone you think might be 
interested.

                                        --Stewart Brand
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Stewart Brand -- sb at gbn.org
The Long Now Foundation - http://www.longnow.org
Seminars & downloads: http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/
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