The Long Now Lecture Series at retroTECH: How To Invent Everything

Come to the Library's third-floor Crosland Tower retroTECH lab Tuesday, March 4 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for a group viewing of one of the Long Now Foundation’s lecture series and enjoy the conversation it sparks. 

This month's video is "How To Invent Everything." Author and comics creator Ryan North gave this talk in 2023, examining the technological and implicit knowledge underpinning modern civilization and offering a practical guide of how one could rebuild civilization from the ground up.

retroTECH’s Long Now Lecture Series is part of our charge to create the future by exploring and preserving our technological pasts. Each month we’ll dip into the archive at longnow.org and find a talk that connects with retroTECH’s research concern -- how our lives shape technology, and are shaped by it, over time – and follow that with an open discussion guided by a Georgia Tech librarian, archivist, or faculty member.