Precis of a new detail the last HN post in 2010. They will be seeking suggestions from all over the world for a Library of Ltility http://blog.longnow.org/02011

Precis of a new detail the last HN post in 2010. They will be seeking suggestions from all over the world for a Library of Ltility http://blog.longnow.org/02011/04/25/the-library-of-utility/ http://blog.longnow.org/02011/04/25/the-library-of-utility/ Seems to me as if it might be fun to come up with some arguments for what might constitute an optimally efficient booklist. "It would be a very selective library. It would not contain the world’s great literature, or varied accounts of history, or deep knowledge of ethnic wonders, or speculations about the future. It has no records of past news, no children’s books, no tomes on philosophy. It contains only seeds. Seeds of utilitarian know-how. How to recreate the infrastructure and technology of civilization so far "It is an interesting thought exercise to ask yourself what information you might want if you had to truly start over. "And in our forthcoming Salon space at Fort Mason Center, we’ll house approximately 3,500 volumes in a floor-to-ceiling library featuring carefully selected books that could be used to help restart civilization. We are not trying to be apocalyptic or at all predictive, but the conversation that is inspired by this exercise seems to be endless and valuable. "We will collaboratively curate this corpus with Long Now’s members and the public. We understand that by definition we ourselves will have a western-centric viewpoint of what might be collected, but as the project gets going we plan to seek submissions that represent views from as many cultural viewpoints as possible."