Long Now
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Long Now
The Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Explore hundreds of lectures and conversations from scientists, historians, artists, entrepreneurs, and more through The Long Now Foundation's award-winning Long Now Talks, started in 02003 by Long...
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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 dots between...
Kim Carson: Inspired by Intelligence
What if AI is not here actually to replace us, but to remind us who we actually are?
That was the question at the heart of Kim Carson’s L...
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 see...
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 governance. T...
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 se...
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...
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...
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 phil...
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 on how to...
Neal Stephenson: Polostan
Neal Stephenson, visionary speculative fiction author and long-time friend of Long Now, joined us for a conversation with journalist Charles C. Mann o...
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 the public...
Jonathan Cordero: Indigenous Sovereign Futures
Alternative visions for social change rooted in the frameworks of capitalism and colonialism only reproduce contemporary structures of power. How can...
Denise Hearn: Embodied Economies
Economic policy can seem abstract and distant, but it manifests the physical world, affecting us all. Our economic stories shape our systems, and they...
Jared Farmer: Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees
_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 bridge bet...
Abby Smith Rumsey: Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures
As authoritarianism continues to rise around the world, the stories we tell ourselves about our collective history become a battleground for competing...
Henry Farrell: The Complex Aftermath of Globalization
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 policy pape...
Coco Krumme: The False Promise of Optimization
Coco Krumme traces the fascinating history of optimization from its roots in America's founding principles, to its dominance as the driving principle...
Chelsea T. Hicks & Bette Adriaanse: Radical Sharing
Our bodies, our houses, our land, our space: we humans don’t always like to share. Author Bette Adriaanse engaged in deep discussion with fellow autho...
Anthropocene Magazine: The Climate Parables: Reporting from the Future
**Story & Performance Credits:**
**Dodging the Apocalypse** story by Mark Alpert | Actor: Stuart Briggs | Video: Ruda Virginio | Score: T...
Ryan Phelan: Bringing Biotech to Wildlife Conservation
How can we turn the tide on species loss and help biodiversity and bioabundance flourish for millennia to come?
Ryan Phelan is Executive...
Becky Chambers & Annalee Newitz: Resisting Dystopia
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: Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
Jenny Odell describes _Saving Time_, her second book and the inspiration for her first Long Now Talk, as a “panoramic assault on nihilism.”
Ismail Ali: Psychedelics: History at the Crossroads
Psychedelics and other mind-altering substances have been used for thousands of years across the world in religious, spiritual, celebratory, and heali...
Ryan North: How to Invent Everything
How would someone fare if they were dropped into a randomly chosen period in history? Would they have any relevant knowledge to share, or ability to i...
Adam Rogers: Full Spectrum: The Science of Color and Modern Human Perception
Tracing an arc from the earliest humans to our digitized, synthesized present and future, Adam Rogers shows the expansive human quest for the understa...
Parag Khanna: Why Mobility is Destiny
The map of humanity isn’t settled -- not now, not ever.
In the 60,000 years since people began spreading across the continents, a recurri...
Eric Debrah Otchere: Sonic Spaces
Eric Debrah Otchere's research revolves around the power of music in the context of work; covering an ambitious range from ethnographic research on Gh...
Wade Davis: Activist Anthropology
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 that upended...
Johanna Hoffman: Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need
Urbanist, researcher and writer Johanna Hoffman gave a Long Now Talk about speculative futures — a powerful set of tools that can reorient urban devel...
Kate Darling: The New Breed
Robot ethicist Kate Darling offers a nuanced and smart take on our relationships to robots and the increasing presence they will have in our lives. Fr...
Suzanne Simard: Mother Trees and the Social Forest
Forest Ecologist Suzanne Simard reveals that trees are part of a complex, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creature...
Alicia Eggert: This Moment Used To Be The Future
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 nature of time:...
Jonathan Haidt, Kevin Kelly, & Stewart Brand: Democracy in the Next Cycle of History
Jonathan Haidt sees that we have entered a social-psychological phase change that was initiated in 02009 when social media platforms introduced severa...
Michael Tubbs: Upsetting the Setup: Creating a California for All
Governance moves slow.
The work of the politician and the public servant ought to inherently be one of long-term thinking — of taking in...
Edward Slingerland: Drinking for 10,000 Years: Intoxication and Civilization
Philosopher Edward Slingerland’s latest research is a deep dive into the alcohol-soaked origins of civilization — and the evolutionary roots of humani...
Creon Levit: Space Debris and The Kessler Syndrome
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 their numb...
Dorie Clark: The Long Game: How to be a long-term thinker in a short-term world
Personal goals need a long-term strategy too.
Dorie Clark offers concrete practices to sharpen strategic thinking and incorporate a long-...
Kim Stanley Robinson: Climate Futures: Beyond 02022
Long Now continued our dialogue with the acclaimed writer Kim Stanley Robinson around [COP26](https://unfccc.int/conference/glasgow-climate-change-con...
John Markoff & Stewart Brand: Floating Upstream: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
In his Long Now Talk, John Markoff was joined in conversation with Long Now's Co-founder Stewart Brand and Executive Director Alexander Rose around Ma...
Prerna Singh: State, Society and Vaccines
As a society, how do we address the "wicked hard problem" of vaccine acceptance? How can public health institutions reach those who are hesitant when...