Stewart Brand explains concepts of change, pace

Below is a summary/transcript of Stewart Brand's video segment about "Pace Layers of Change" at an Evernote conference in late 2014. Mr. Brand is founder of the Long Now Foundation, whose mission is to encourage people to think in the very long-term (on the scale of centuries or millennia). Let's try to bring context into our lives and make each day count. Part of being able to do that is how to frame your day's work into your life's work. Once you start doing that, maybe you can then begin to frame your day's work into civilization's work. One way to reframe your thinking is by understanding the pace layers of change. The diagram above is of a healthy civilization. It is a cross-section of society that moves and changes at different speeds. The most rapidly changing parts are at the top–where fashion changes weekly. The slower parts are down at the bottom. So, cultures take decades to change (at best!)…sometimes centuries or millennia. Sometimes, cultures don't budge at all. It's the

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