7 years ago, @adactio gave a brilliant talk called ‘Building’, in Nottingham, UK. The talk drew upon Stewart Brand’s model of ‘pace layers’.
7 years later, that talk is no longer available at the Notist URL where Jeremy originally shared it, but several embedded posts from X (then Twitter) which give the talk richly deserved praise are still there.
What we’re not prepared for though is going in reverse. And that’s arriving quicker than we’d like
…Here’s the Notist page where Jeremy kindly shared his talk. Its slides are still there.
The ‘pace layers’ bit begins at slide 26
…And here’s a nice explainer and sketch of Stewart Brand’s pace layers, albeit published on Substack:
https://sketchplanations.com/pace-layers
…Although Stewart’s point about *pace* is well-observed, what we’ll see more acutely as things go into reverse, is *persistence* or the lack of it.
We have no option but to get back closer to that which has always been there but which we have severely diminished.
More severely than most are aware.
In terms of Jeremy’s talk, while we still have a lot, we can start doing #frugalComputing… or keep pushing towards bigger collapse, which will have the weird quality of being both quick and slow
