Philosophy · Similar reads
Books like The Clock of the Long Now
The Clock of the Long Now by Stewart Brand is about long-term thinking, civilization, technology. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- How Buildings Learn
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Stewart Brand · Science
How Buildings Learn is Stewart Brand's argument that buildings are not finished products but ongoing processes — and that the buildings most valued over time are those designed to change gracefully rather than resist change defensively.
Read the summary → - Thinking in Systems
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Donella H. Meadows · Science
Thinking in Systems is Donella Meadows's introduction to the discipline of systems thinking — a way of understanding why complex things behave the way they do.
Read the summary → - Whole Earth Discipline
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Stewart Brand · Science
Whole Earth Discipline is Stewart Brand's argument that the environmental movement needs to update its orthodoxies in light of climate change and the actual evidence on the technologies it has historically opposed.
Read the summary → - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
Read the summary → - Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Homo Deus picks up where Sapiens left off, but turns to face the other direction.
Read the summary → - 1984
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George Orwell · Philosophy
Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's 1949 novel about a future England called Airstrip One, governed by the totalitarian Party under the figurehead Big Brother.
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