Bayo Akomolafe: The Untimely
In his Talk, poet-philosopher Bayo Akomolafe presented a riveting critique of linear time, and gave a persuasive invitation to step sideways...
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Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking
Explore hundreds of lectures by scientists, historians, artists, entrepreneurs, and more through The Long Now Foundation's award-winning lecture series, curated and hosted by Long Now co-fou...
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20 of 331 episodesClaire Isabel Webb & Nina Miolane: The Geometry of Consciousness
How do the binary electronic signals of neurons give rise to subjective experience? Mathematician and machine learning researcher Nina Miola...
Eric Ries: Incorruptible by Design
What if we redefined “profit” as maximizing human flourishing? Eric Ries has seen the corrosive effects of shareholder primacy at every comp...
Melody Jue: Ocean Memory
The ocean is not empty. It is a vast storage facility of memory agents. Ocean bodies use the chemical signatures of seawater for memory and...
Stefan Sagmeister: Finally, something good.
"The world is terrible, and the world is better," Stefan Sagmeister said. "Both can be true." It all depends on perspective. In his Long Now...
Indy Johar: Civilizational Optioneering
Indy Johar pointed to the first photographs of the whole Earth taken from space. “This was the moment the planet became self-aware." This pl...
Kate Crawford: Mapping Empires
Kate Crawford’s Long Now Talk traces an historical arc from Renaissance perspective to AI image models, illustrating how shifts in represent...
Lynn Rothschild: Nature’s Hardware Store
What if the solutions to humanity’s greatest challenges — on Earth and beyond — have already been invented by nature? In this forward-lookin...
Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence?
Blaise Agüera y Arcas’s talk took us on a journey through What is Intelligence?, his groundbreaking new work connecting the evolutionary dot...
Kim Carson: Inspired by Intelligence
**Kim Carson's new book [_Inspired by Intelligence: From Burnout to Becoming_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJGYQHN6?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_...
Sara Imari Walker: An Informational Theory of Life
“What is life?” In her Long Now Talk, astrobiologist and theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker explores the many dimensions of that seemin...
Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson: Abundance
As they look upon the United States of America in 02025, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson see a country wrought by a half-century of failed gov...
Kim Stanley Robinson & Stephen Heintz: A Logic For The Future
Stephen Heintz and Kim Stanley Robinson say we live in an “Age of Turbulence.” Looking around our geopolitical situation, it’s easy to see w...
K Allado-McDowell: On Neural Media
How will AI shape our understanding of our creativity and ourselves? In February, artist and technologist K Allado-McDowell delivered a fasc...
Ahmed Best: Feel The Future
When you feel the future, how do you share that feeling in order to build community? Ahmed Best’s Long Now Talk was the first in the more-th...
Benjamin Bratton: A Philosophy of Planetary Computation
We find ourselves in a pre-paradigmatic moment in which our technology has outpaced our theories of what to do with it. The task of philosop...
Roman Krznaric & Kate Raworth: What Doughnut Economics Can Learn From History
Social philosopher Roman Krznaric and renegade economist Kate Raworth explore how we can survive and thrive by looking to the past for clues...
Neal Stephenson: Polostan
Neal Stephenson, visionary speculative fiction author and long-time friend of Long Now, joined us for a conversation with journalist Charles...
Alicia Escott & Heidi Quante: The Bureau of Linguistical Reality Performance Lecture
The Bureau of Linguistical Reality is a participatory artwork facilitated by artist Alicia Escott and Heidi Quante which collaborates with t...
Jonathan Cordero: Indigenous Sovereign Futures
Alternative visions for social change rooted in the frameworks of capitalism and colonialism only reproduce contemporary structures of power...