<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">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.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">If anyone wants to go to this who is
not already member, please let me know and I'll reserve a ticket for you...</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">(or you can purchase on here:)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/55707</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">+ Adrian Cotter<br>
+ Senior Webmaster<br>
+ Sierra Club National<br>
+ 415.977.5671</font>
<br><font size=1 color=#800080 face="sans-serif">----- Forwarded by Adrian
Cotter/Sierraclub on 02/09/2009 10:47 AM -----</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: salt-bounces@list.longnow.org</font>
<p><font size=1 face="sans-serif">02/09/2009 10:38 AM</font>
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">[SALT] Creative social collapse FRIDAY
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<br><font size=3>[Note 2 ways to assure yourself a seat, below]</font>
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<br><font size=3>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.</font>
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<br><font size=3>Renewal awaits on the other side of collapse, and there
are ways to hasten that process. Orlov is the author of<i> Reinventing
Collapse: Soviet Example and American Prospects</i> (02008).</font>
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<br><font size=3><b>"Social Collapse Best Practices," Dmitry
Orlov</b>,<b> Cowell Theater, Fort Mason</b>, San Francisco,<b> 7pm, FRIDAY,
February 13. </b> The show starts promptly at 7:30pm. Admission
is<b><u> free</u></b><u>---if there's room. To be sure of a seat,</u>
</font><a href=https://secure.longnow.org/members/><font size=3><u>become
a Long Now member</u></font></a><font size=3> and reserve a seat or </font><a href=http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/55707><font size=3><u>order
an advance ticket</u></font></a><font size=3><u> ($10)</u>.</font>
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<br><font size=3>Recent SALT talks have overflowed, and latecomers had
to be turned away. To head off the problem,<b> here's the new arrangement:</b></font>
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<li><font size=3> Long Now </font><a href=https://secure.longnow.org/members/><font size=3 color=blue><u>Members</u></font></a><font size=3>
can reserve a seat +1 guest </font><a href=http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/55707><font size=3 color=blue><b><u>HERE</u></b></font></a><font size=3>
(Use "discount code" from your email or the Members page at the
Long Now site under the "Events" tab.)</font></ul><font size=3>
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<li><font size=3> <b> You can purchase tickets for $10</b> </font><a href=http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/55707><font size=3 color=blue><b><u>HERE</u></b></font></a></ul><font size=3>
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<ul>
<li><font size=3> Please note, Members and Ticket holders: if you
arrive after 7:25pm we may not be able to seat you in the theater.</font></ul><font size=3>
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<li><font size=3> All tickets and RSVP's are Will-Call; advance sales
and RSVP's end at 3:00pm on Feb. 13.</font></ul><font size=3> </font>
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<li><font size=3> Please allow time for traffic, parking, walking
to the theater, and check-in.</font></ul><font size=3> </font>
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<li><font size=3> 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.</font></ul>
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<br><font size=3>Talks coming up:</font>
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<br><font size=3><b>Mar. 20</b> (Friday) -<b> Daniel Everett</b>, "Endangered
Languages, Lost Knowledge and the Future"</font>
<br><font size=3><b>April</b> (sometime) -<b> Mayor Gavin Newsom</b>, "Cities
and Time"</font>
<br><font size=3><b>May 5</b> (TUESDAY) -<b> Michael Pollan</b>, "Deep
Agriculture"</font>
<br><font size=3><b>May 18</b> (MONDAY) -<b> Paul Romer</b>, "A Theory
of History, with an Application"</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Aug. 17</b> (MONDAY) -<b> Wayne Clough</b>, "Smithsonian
Forever"</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Sep. 14</b> (MONDAY) -<b> Arthur Ganson</b>, "Machines
and the Breath of Time"</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Oct. 9</b> (Friday) -<b> Stewart Brand</b>, "Rethinking
Green"</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Nov. 18</b> (WEDNESDAY) -<b> Sander van der Leeuw</b>,
"The Long and Short of It"</font>
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<br><font size=3><b>Special Long Now event</b>: On Tuesday<b> February
17</b>, 02009, from 7-10pm. Join author Bruce Sterling, technology
pundit Paul Saffo, and other special guests on the UC Berkeley campus for
the<b> Funeral for the Analog Television Signal</b>. Berkeley Art Museum,
2621 Durant Ave., Berkeley, CA.<u> Also note:</u> 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: </font><a href=http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/tvfuneral><font size=3 color=blue><u>http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/tvfuneral</u></font></a><font size=3>
)</font>
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<br><font size=3>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 </font><a href=https://secure.longnow.org/members/><font size=3 color=blue><u>here</u></font></a><font size=3>.</font>
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<br><font size=3>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 </font><a href=http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/><font size=3><u>here</u></font></a><font size=3>
(or stay up to date with the Podcast </font><a href=http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/podcast.php><font size=3><u>here</u></font></a><font size=3>).
You'll find a range of long-term thinking items on our </font><a href=http://blog.longnow.org/><font size=3><u>Blog</u></font></a><font size=3>
(</font><a href=http://feeds.feedburner.com/longnowblog><font size=3><u>RSS</u></font></a><font size=3>).
If you would like to be notified by email (like this one) of forthcoming
talks, go </font><a href=http://list.longnow.org/mailman/listinfo/SALT><font size=3><u>here</u></font></a><font size=3>
to sign up online. Any questions, contact Danielle Engelman at Long
Now--- 415-561-6582 x1, </font><a href=mailto:danielle@longnow.org><font size=3 color=blue><u>danielle@longnow.org</u></font></a><font size=3>.</font>
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<br><font size=3>You are welcome to forward this note to anyone you think
might be interested.</font>
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--Stewart Brand</font>
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<br><font size=3>Stewart Brand -- sb@gbn.org</font>
<br><font size=3>The Long Now Foundation - http://www.longnow.org<br>
Seminars & downloads: http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/</font>