From: Whole Earth | Date: December 22, 1999| Author: PW | COPYRIGHT 1999 Point Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

THE CLOCK OF THE LONG NOW Time and Responsibility Stewart Brand. 1999; 190 pp. $22. Basic Books.

Stewart has written an important book. He asks: "How do we make long term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare? How do we make the taking of long-term responsibility inevitable?" He has in mind 10,000 years -- a future period equal to our lives on Earth since the last glaciation.

Always the superb cultural navigator, Stewart spots, points to,...