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Long Now is a society podcast hosted by The Long Now Foundation. It has 328 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.
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 Now co-founder Stewart Brand (creator of the Whole Earth Catalog). Past speakers include Brian Eno, Neal Stephenson, Jenny Odell, Daniel Kahneman, Suzanne Simard, Jennifer Pahlka, Kim Stanley Robinson, and many more. Watch video of these talks at https://longnow.org/talks
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Melody Jue: Ocean Memory
Stefan Sagmeister: Finally, something good.
Indy Johar: Civilizational Optioneering
Kate Crawford: Mapping Empires
Lynn Rothschild: Nature’s Hardware Store
Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence?
Kim Carson: Inspired by Intelligence
Sara Imari Walker: An Informational Theory of Life
Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson: Abundance
Kim Stanley Robinson & Stephen Heintz: A Logic For The Future
K Allado-McDowell: On Neural Media
Ahmed Best: Feel The Future
Benjamin Bratton: A Philosophy of Planetary Computation
Roman Krznaric & Kate Raworth: What Doughnut Economics Can Learn From History
Neal Stephenson: Polostan
Alicia Escott & Heidi Quante: The Bureau of Linguistical Reality Performance Lecture
Jonathan Cordero: Indigenous Sovereign Futures
Denise Hearn: Embodied Economies
Jared Farmer: Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees
Abby Smith Rumsey: Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures
Henry Farrell: The Complex Aftermath of Globalization
Coco Krumme: The False Promise of Optimization
Chelsea T. Hicks & Bette Adriaanse: Radical Sharing
Anthropocene Magazine: The Climate Parables: Reporting from the Future
Ryan Phelan: Bringing Biotech to Wildlife Conservation
Becky Chambers & Annalee Newitz: Resisting Dystopia
Jenny Odell: Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
Ismail Ali: Psychedelics: History at the Crossroads
Ryan North: How to Invent Everything
Adam Rogers: Full Spectrum: The Science of Color and Modern Human Perception
Parag Khanna: Why Mobility is Destiny
Eric Debrah Otchere: Sonic Spaces
Wade Davis: Activist Anthropology
Johanna Hoffman: Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need
Kate Darling: The New Breed
Suzanne Simard: Mother Trees and the Social Forest
Alicia Eggert: This Moment Used To Be The Future
Jonathan Haidt, Kevin Kelly, & Stewart Brand: Democracy in the Next Cycle of History
Michael Tubbs: Upsetting the Setup: Creating a California for All
Edward Slingerland: Drinking for 10,000 Years: Intoxication and Civilization
Creon Levit: Space Debris and The Kessler Syndrome
Dorie Clark: The Long Game: How to be a long-term thinker in a short-term world
Kim Stanley Robinson: Climate Futures: Beyond 02022
John Markoff & Stewart Brand: Floating Upstream: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Prerna Singh: State, Society and Vaccines
Sean Carroll: The Passage of Time and the Meaning of Life
Neal Stephenson: Termination Shock
Geoff Manaugh & Nicola Twilley: Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
David Rooney: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
Alexander Rose: Continuity: Discovering the Lessons behind the World’s Longest-lived Organizations
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