"The Long Bets Foundation - make long-term predictions and hope someone will bet against it. Winnings go to the winner's choice of charities. This is a partial spin-off from The Long Now Foundation, which is building a 10,000-year Clock and tools for a 10,000-year Library. Long Bets is one of the Library tools. A Stewart Brand project."
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Hank Wesselman, Spirit Walker: Messages from the Future (and related books)
"Hank Wesselman is a physical anthropologist (UC-Berkeley) whose career activities include research with teams in Africa’s Great Rift Valley where Lucy and other early human ancestors have been discovered. His background as a physical anthropologist concerned with long-term ecological change plays a role in these books, but their real import has to do with a very different path--one of spontaneous and then deliberate shamanistic experiences that reveal a dramatically different future for humanity." (review by Michael Winkleman. quoted without permission)
More later.
