Long-term X Prizes with Peter Diamandis September 12, 2008

The Long Now Foundation's monthly series Seminars About Long-term Thinking
http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/

Peter Diamandis presents
Long-term X Prizes

Founder and Chairman of the X PRIZE Foundation, Peter Diamandis is dedicated to bringing about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. In this lecture, Diamandis will discuss a new class of X PRIZEs which are larger in purse size and far more ambitious in scope. He calls these “Mega-X PRIZEs” as they tackle bigger problems over longer timeframes and use the high financial stakes to drive more aggressive advancement in scientific discoveries. Previously, he awarded The Ansari X PRIZE of $10 million to the creators of SpaceShipOne for being the first privately developed craft to take a human to space.

The Seminars About Long-term Thinking were started in 02003 to build a coherent, compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking, to help nudge civilization toward Long Now's goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare.

Seminar hosted by Stewart Brand

Friday September 12, 02008

Doors open 7:00pm, talk at 7:30pm lasting ~1.5 hours
$10 suggested donation

We recommend you arrive early; priority seating is available for Members of Long Now.
https://secure.longnow.org/members/

For more information contact:
Danielle Engelman
Community Development Director
danielle@longnow.org
415.561.6582 x1

Official Website: http://www.longnow.org