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Long Conversation with Paul Hawken and Tiffany Shlain

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The Long Now Foundation

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Partner:: Long Now Foundation
Location:: Contemporary Jewish Museum
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 10.16.10
Speakers:: Paul Hawken,; Tiffany Shlain
Tags:: environmentalism; filmmaker; journalists; social entrepreneur; social media; author

Summary: Long Conversation, an epic relay of one-to-one conversations among some of the Bay Area's most interesting minds, took place over six hours in San Francisco on Saturday, October 16, 02010. Interpreting the Long Conversation in real time was a data visualization performance by Sosolimited; an art and technology studio out of M.I.T.

Long Conversation was presented with a live performance of 1,000 minutes of composer Jem Finer's Longplayer.

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Paul Hawken

Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author. Starting at age 20, he dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. His practice has included starting and running ecological businesses, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce on living systems, and consulting with governments and corporations on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy.

Tiffany Shlain

Honored by Newsweek as one of the "Women Shaping the 21st Century," Tiffany Shlain is a filmmaker, founder of the Webby Awards, and cofounder of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. A celebrated thinker and catalyst, Tiffany is known for her ability to illuminate complex ideas in culture, science, technology, and life through her unique films, dynamic talks, and projects. Her films and work have received 50 awards and distinctions. Her last four films premiered at Sundance, including her new 2011 acclaimed feature documentary, "Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology," which the New York Times hailed as "Examining Everything From the Big Bang to Twitter," and the US State Department just selected it as one of the films to represent American in their 2012 American Film Showcase. She is currently working on a new film series, that includes "A Declaration of Interdependence and her new film "Brain Power" looking at the development of the human brain set for completion this spring. She and her team are customizing these films for free for any non-profit around the world. www.tiffanyshlain.com

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01.: Thoughts on Malcolm Gladwell's Twitter Article

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02.: How to Live in the World

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03.: How Business Can Help Improve the World

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04.: Thoughts on Social Networks and Connectivity

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05.: Thoughts on Religion and Reading

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06.: The Importance of Systems Thinking

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07.: The Speeding Up of Time

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Systems Thinking: How Language Impedes This Vital Skill

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Environmentalist Paul Hawken touts the importance of "systems thinking," or regarding all things as connected to one another. He asserts that people are born systems thinkers, and only lose this ability as they learn compartmentalized skills like language.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

futurology: Study of current trends in order to forecast future developments. The field originated in the “technological forecasting” developed near the end of World War II and in studies examining the consequences of nuclear conflict. Studies in the 1960s sought to anticipate future social patterns and needs. The Limits of Growth by Dennis Meadows, et al. (1972), focused on global socioeconomic trends, projecting a Malthusian vision in which the collapse of the world order would result if population growth, industrial expansion, pollution, food production, and natural-resource use continued at current rates. Later reports reiterated many of these concerns, with critics contending that futurologists' models were flawed and futurologists responding that their analytic techniques were becoming increasingly sophisticated. Other notable works include Alvin Toffler's Future Shock (1970), Daniel Bell's The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth (1982), and Nigel Calder's The Green Machines (1986).; futurology on britannica.com

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GeedieZ

Posted: 11.20.10, 12:46 PM

Well, propably not the best video out there. Not informational enough and it didn't quite make me to think about the thing they were discussing. It was just starting to get a little bit intreresting when Paul Hawken deided to ran off the scene.