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Samsara
Ron Fricke
Shot in 70mm film across 25 countries, the visual juxtapositions in Samsara offer a profound meditation on the nature of our planetary ecosystem, human civilization, and the divine.
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The Last Question
Isaac Asimov
For eons humanity and our descendants have asked a single question: “Can entropy be reversed?”
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Voyager Golden Record
Carl Sagan
”This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.”
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Rise of the Garden Empires
Wolf Tivy
Mankind’s environmental destiny is to build garden empires, synthesizing ecology. and industry together into a new order or life.
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Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Joge Luis Borges
Humanity’s path forward depends on rethinking our maps and critically examining the territory we now occupy.
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Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept
Leo Marx
The evolution of 'technology' from an academic concept to a key societal term marks a significant shift in how humans perceive and influence the world.
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Confronting Modernism Means Overcoming Humanism
Charlie Smith
Rational modernity has failed to fully understand the world and chart a centralized plan. Instead, we will need to embrace our uncertainty and the gaps in human agency.
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Macworld 2007
Steve Jobs
“Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.”
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That Mighty Sculptor Time
Marguerite Yourcenar
The great lovers of antiquities restored out of piety. Out of piety, we undo what they did.
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The Color of Pomegranates
Sergei Parajanov & Nicholas Jaar
"In the temple of cinema there are images, light and reality. Sergei Paradjanov was the master of that temple."
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How to Start a Startup
Paul Graham
In 2005 Paul Graham outlined keys to success in startups. His wisdom would be codified in YCombinator and sought by a generation of entrepreneurs.
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The Only Reason to Explore Space
Marco Jukic
There is only one durable justification for space exploration. If we fail to understand it, our civilization will end on Earth, not among the stars.
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A School of Strength and Character
Tanner Greer
The virtues developed by 19th century Americans remain powerful norms for those building institutions or agentic cultures today.
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Destino
Walt Disney & Salvador Dali
In 1945, two titans of the creative arts began a collaboration on an avant garde film. 58 years later, it was completed.
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Citizenship in a Republic
Theodore Roosevelt
”To you and your kind much has been given, and from you much should be expected.”
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