Sharing in the Long Now
I virtually attended this year’s Wisdom 2.0 conference. The defining question the organizers put to attendees was How can we live with wisdom, awareness, and compassion in the digital age? Speakers on the main stage included people Noah Shachtman profiled for Wired magazine last year in his piece Enlightenment Engineers, like Arturo Bejar, Director of Engineering at Facebook, and Meng Tan, an in-house Google guru, along with cultural and political luminaries like Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, and Alanis Morissette (“Conscious Communication in the Digital Age” in case you were wondering). Since this is a short blog post, I’ll focus…