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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...
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...
"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 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’s Long Now Talk traces an historical arc from Renaissance perspective to AI image models, illustrating how shifts in represent...
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’s talk took us on a journey through What is Intelligence?, his groundbreaking new work connecting the evolutionary dot...
**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_...
“What is life?” In her Long Now Talk, astrobiologist and theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker explores the many dimensions of that seemin...
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...
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...
How will AI shape our understanding of our creativity and ourselves? In February, artist and technologist K Allado-McDowell delivered a fasc...
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...
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...
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, visionary speculative fiction author and long-time friend of Long Now, joined us for a conversation with journalist Charles...
The Bureau of Linguistical Reality is a participatory artwork facilitated by artist Alicia Escott and Heidi Quante which collaborates with t...
Alternative visions for social change rooted in the frameworks of capitalism and colonialism only reproduce contemporary structures of power...
Economic policy can seem abstract and distant, but it manifests the physical world, affecting us all. Our economic stories shape our systems...
_What really interests me is how long-lived plants allow humans to think about—and emotionally relate to—long units of time. They provide a...
As authoritarianism continues to rise around the world, the stories we tell ourselves about our collective history become a battleground for...
Over the last two years, the US government has started thinking about the future of the world in a very different way. Across speeches and p...
Coco Krumme traces the fascinating history of optimization from its roots in America's founding principles, to its dominance as the driving...
Our bodies, our houses, our land, our space: we humans don’t always like to share. Author Bette Adriaanse engaged in deep discussion with fe...
**Story & Performance Credits:** **Dodging the Apocalypse** story by Mark Alpert | Actor: Stuart Briggs | Video: Ruda Virginio | Score: Tris...
How can we turn the tide on species loss and help biodiversity and bioabundance flourish for millennia to come? Ryan Phelan is Executive Dir...
One of our guiding principles at Long Now is that in order to get to a future that we want to live in, we must first be able to imagine it....
Jenny Odell describes _Saving Time_, her second book and the inspiration for her first Long Now Talk, as a “panoramic assault on nihilism.”...
Psychedelics and other mind-altering substances have been used for thousands of years across the world in religious, spiritual, celebratory,...
How would someone fare if they were dropped into a randomly chosen period in history? Would they have any relevant knowledge to share, or ab...
Tracing an arc from the earliest humans to our digitized, synthesized present and future, Adam Rogers shows the expansive human quest for th...
The map of humanity isn’t settled -- not now, not ever. In the 60,000 years since people began spreading across the continents, a recurring...
Eric Debrah Otchere's research revolves around the power of music in the context of work; covering an ambitious range from ethnographic rese...
What is the role and purpose of Anthropology today? Wade Davis looks back at the pioneering work of Franz Boas in the early 20th century tha...
Urbanist, researcher and writer Johanna Hoffman gave a Long Now Talk about speculative futures — a powerful set of tools that can reorient u...
Robot ethicist Kate Darling offers a nuanced and smart take on our relationships to robots and the increasing presence they will have in our...
Forest Ecologist Suzanne Simard reveals that trees are part of a complex, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperativ...
In _The Clock of the Long Now_, Long Now founder Stewart Brand wrote, in response to Zen poet Gary Snyder, the following musing on the natur...
Jonathan Haidt sees that we have entered a social-psychological phase change that was initiated in 02009 when social media platforms introdu...
Governance moves slow. The work of the politician and the public servant ought to inherently be one of long-term thinking — of taking in con...
Philosopher Edward Slingerland’s latest research is a deep dive into the alcohol-soaked origins of civilization — and the evolutionary roots...
More than one hundred million pieces of human-made space debris currently orbit our planet, most moving at more than 10,000 mph. Every year...
Personal goals need a long-term strategy too. Dorie Clark offers concrete practices to sharpen strategic thinking and incorporate a long-ter...
Long Now continued our dialogue with the acclaimed writer Kim Stanley Robinson around [COP26](https://unfccc.int/conference/glasgow-climate-...
In his Long Now Talk, John Markoff was joined in conversation with Long Now's Co-founder Stewart Brand and Executive Director Alexander Rose...
As a society, how do we address the "wicked hard problem" of vaccine acceptance? How can public health institutions reach those who are hesi...
What is time? What is humankind’s role in the universe? What is the meaning of life? For much of human history, these questions have been th...
From the Metaverse in Snow Crash to digital currency in Cryptonomicon, Stephenson's thrilling stories offer uncanny insights into our future...
**Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley** track the history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation t...
As with all Long Now Talks, David Rooney’s talk on Thursday, September 9, 02021 began with a few tones from Brian Eno’s January 07003: Bell...
One of [Long Now](https://longnow.org/)’s founding premises is that humanity’s most significant challenges require long-term solutions, incl...