The Book of the World is an artifact I'm hoping for. The printed book did this for Galileo's universe: it condensed understanding. I want something that does the same for the Earth and opens up the Planetary Durée, more-than-humanistic, held in the hand and spread across sensors.
How the word moved
The seed was in July 2018, when I asked what language we should use to write the ebook of the universe. In March 2026 I gave it a name and tied it to planetary sapience.
In my words
"Inventing a humanistic - no, a more-than-humanistic - artifact that helps us capture the qualitative richness of planetary history is going to be key ..."
from The Planetary Syllabus. Time, Part IV: The Planetary Durée and The Book of the World, 31 Mar 2026
Related
- Inherited from Galileo - the grand book of the universe is his.
- Related Planetary Sapience - the Earth reading its own book.
- Related Planetary Duree - the book has to open the durée.
Still open
It's the same open question I asked in 2018, eight years later. I don't know what the artifact looks like yet.