[tt] [SALT] The Black Swan himself, next MONDAY Feb. 4

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: Stewart Brand <sb at gbn.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:36:27 -0800
To: salt at list.longnow.org
Subject: [SALT] The Black Swan himself, next MONDAY Feb. 4
Reply-To: services at longnow.org


   Next MONDAY, Feb. 4!  (Not this Friday.)

   Skeptical empiricist Nassim Taleb, author of THE BLACK SWAN: The
   Impact of the Highly Improbable, has bracing things to say about the
   future.  It is inevitable that we will be massively blindsided by
   events, because our understanding is misled by an array of beguiling
   illusions about reality.  Taleb is a highly successful quant
   (financial mathematician), philosopher of randomness, and vivid story
   teller.

     "The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought," Nassim
     Nicholas Taleb, Cowell Theater, Fort  Mason, San Francisco, 7pm,
     MONDAY, February 4.  The lecture starts promptly at 7:30pm.
     Admission is free (a $10 donation is always welcome, not required).

   Note: If we get an overflow audience at the Cowell (seats 400), Long
   Now Members (and a date) get first shot at a seat.  (The same will
   apply Feb. 25 for the Craig Venter talk at the Herbst Theater
   downtown.)  Here's how it will work:

     Priority seating will be available for Long Now Members (plus one)
     for this Seminar.

     * please arrive before the doors open at 7
     * bring your member card or ID so we can give you a hand stamp
     * when we open the doors to the theater, members (and their plus
       one) will be seated first
     * we ask that you do not save additional seats - thank you
     * at approximately 7:10 we will open the theater up for general
       seating  - there will be no more priority seating after the
       theater opens up for general seating

   There will be a simulcast of the Seminar projected in the Cowell's
   large lobby if we do reach capacity in the theater.

   Long Now Membership costs $8/month ($96/year) and helps support the
   series.  Joinable [1]here.

   Further note:  As always when the talk is at the Cowell Theater, there
   will be a reception at The Long Now Museum and Store following the
   talk, just 70 yards from the Cowell, in Building "A" at Fort Mason,
   right next to Greens Restaurant.

   Talks coming up:

   Feb. 25 (MONDAY) - Craig Venter, "Joining 3.5 Billion Years of
   Microbial Invention" (At the Herbst, in the Civic Center)

   Apr. 25 (Friday) - Niall Ferguson & Peter Schwartz, "Historian vs.
   Futurist on Human Progress"

   May 21 (WEDNESDAY) - Iqbal Quadir, "Technology Empowers the Poorest"

   Jul. 23 (WEDNESDAY) - Edward Burtynsky, "The 10,000-year Gallery"

   Sep. 12 (Friday) - Peter Diamandis, "Long-term X-Prizes"

   Dec. 19 (Friday) - Rick Prelinger, "Lost Landscapes of San Francisco"

   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 [2]here (or
   stay up to date with the Podcast [3]here).  The summaries join other
   long-term thinking items on our [4]Blog ([5]RSS).  If you would like
   to be notified by email of forthcoming talks, go [6]here to sign up
   online.  Any questions, contact Danielle Engelman at Long Now---
   415-561-6582 x1, [7]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/

References

   1. https://secure.longnow.org/members/
   2. http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/
   3. http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/podcast.php
   4. http://blog.longnow.org/
   5. http://feeds.feedburner.com/longnowblog
   6. http://list.longnow.org/mailman/listinfo/SALT
   7. mailto:danielle at longnow.org

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