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Long Now — 332 episodes
(From the archive) Jonathon Keats: Envisioning Deep Time
Bayo Akomolafe: The Untimely
Claire Isabel Webb & Nina Miolane: The Geometry of Consciousness
Eric Ries: Incorruptible by Design
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
Nathaniel Rich, Ben Novak, & Ryan Phelan: Second Nature: Green Rabbits, Passenger Pigeons, Cloned Ferrets, and the Birth of a New Ecology
Tim O'Reilly: What’s The Future? It’s Up to Us.
Peter Leyden: The Transformation: A Future History of the World from 02020 to 02050
Jason Tester: Queering the Future: How LGBTQ Foresight Can Benefit All
Scurvy Salon: The History & Science of a Persistent Malady
Rick Prelinger: Bay Area Telecommunications Infrastructure History
James Nestor: The Future of Breathing
Miles Traer: The Geological Reveal: How the Rock Record Shows Our Relationship to the Natural World
Nadia Asparouhova: The Making and Maintenance of our Open Source Infrastructure
Roman Krznaric: Becoming a Better Ancestor
Julia Watson: Design by Radical Indigenism
Scott Kildall: Art Thinking + Technology: A Personal Journey of Expanding Space and Time
Genevieve Bell: The 4th Industrial Revolution: Responsible & Secure AI
Craig Childs: Tracking the First People into Ice Age North America
Peter Calthorpe: Urban Planet
Lonny J Avi Brooks: When is Wakanda: Imagining Afrofutures
Kim Stanley Robinson: Adapting to Sea Level Rise: The Science of <em>New York 2140</em>
Brian Fisher: Edible Insects
Annalee Newitz: Science Needs Fiction
Larry Brilliant: Sometimes Brilliant: in Conversation with Stewart Brand
Laurance Doyle: Interspecies Communication and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Rick Doblin: Transformational Psychedelics
D. Fox Harrell: Coding Ourselves/Coding Others
Jennifer Granick: Modern Surveillance: Why You Should Care and What You Can Do
Renée DiResta: Disinformation Technology: How Online Propaganda Campaigns Are Influencing Us
Michael Mikel: The Five Ages of Burning Man
Robert McIntyre: Engram Preservation: Early Work Towards Mind Uploading
Eric Ries: Long-Term Stock Exchange
Bruce Sterling: How to Be Futuristic
Fred Lyon: San Francisco Time: The Photography of Fred Lyon
Caroline Winterer: The Art and Science of Deep Time: Conceiving the Inconceivable in the 19th Century
Tiffany Shlain: 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week
Bina Venkataraman: Long-Term Thinking in a Distracted World
Kelly Wanser: Is Reflecting Sunlight from the Atmosphere a Bridge to the Future?
Esther Dyson: The Short Now: What Addiction, Day Trading, and Most of Society’s Ills Have in Common
Adrienne Mayor: Gods and Robots: Ancient Dreams of Technology
Annalee Newitz: We're in the Wrong Timeline
Jacob Ward: The Loop: Decision Technology and How to Resist It
Andrew McAfee: More From Less
Lewis Dartnell: ORIGINS - How Earth’s history shaped human history
Brittany Cox: Horological Heritage: Generating bird song, magic, and music through mechanism
Gurjeet Singh: The Shape Of Data And Things To Come
Suhanya Raffel: World Art Through The Asian Perspective
Nicola Twilley: Exploring the Artificial Cryosphere
Monica L. Smith: Cities: The First 6,000 Years
Neal Stephenson: Neal Stephenson - Fall, or Dodge in Hell
Marcia Bjornerud: Timefulness
Kim Stanley Robinson: Learning From Le Guin
Mariana Mazzucato: Rethinking Value
David Byrne: Good News & Sleeping Beauties
Brian Behlendorf: A Foundation of Trust: Building a Blockchain Future
Judy Wajcman: Time Poverty Amidst Digital Abundance
Ian McEwan: Machines Like Me
Elizabeth Lonsdorf: Growing Up Ape: The Long-term Science of Studying Our Closest Living Relatives
Maya Tudor: Can Nationalism be a Resource for Democracy?
Alexander Rose, Kevin Kelly, & Stewart Brand: Siberia: A Journey to the Mammoth Steppe
Christopher Bryan: The Evolving Science of Behavior Change
Hannu Rajaniemi: The Spirit Singularity: Science and the Afterlife at the Turn of the 20th Century
Jeff Goodell: The Water Will Come
James Holland Jones: The Science of Climate Fiction: Can Stories Lead to Social Action?
Ed Lu: Charting the High Frontier of Space
Chip Conley: The Modern Elder and the Intergenerational Workplace
Martin Rees: Prospects for Humanity
Stewart Brand: Whole Earth Catalog 50th Anniversary Celebration
Niall Ferguson: Networks and Power
Mary Lou Jepsen: Toward Practical Telepathy
Julia Galef: Soldiers and Scouts: Why our minds weren't built for truth, and how we can change that
Juan Benet: Long Term Info-structure
Shahzeen Attari: Facts, Feelings and Stories: How to Motivate Action on Climate Change
George P. Shultz: Perspective
Chris D. Thomas: Are We Initiating The Great Anthropocene Speciation Event?
Benjamin Grant: Overview: Earth and Civilization in the Macroscope
Kishore Mahbubani: Has the West Lost It? Can Asia Save It?
Margaret Levi: The Organized Pursuit of Knowledge
Steven Pinker: A New Enlightenment
Michael Frachetti: Open Source Civilization and the Unexpected Origins of the Silk Road
Mike Kuniavsky: Our Future in Algorithm Farming
James Nestor: Humanity and the Deep Ocean
Charles C. Mann: The Wizard and the Prophet
Louis Hyman: The New Deal You Don't Know
Elena Bennett: Seeds of a Good Anthropocene
Nathaniel Persily: Can Democracy Survive the Internet?
Rose McDermott: Ideology in our Genes: The Biological Basis for Political Traits
Renee Wegrzyn: Engineering Gene Safety
Jason Scott: The Web In An Eye Blink
The Refugee Reality: Thinking Long-term About the Evolving Global Challenge
David Grinspoon: Earth in Human Hands
Nicky Case: Seeing Whole Systems
Carolyn Porco: Searching for Life in the Solar System
Kim Stanley Robinson: How Climate Will Evolve Government and Society
Kara Platoni: Transforming Perception, One Sense at a Time
James Gleick: Time Travel
Jeffrey McGrew: Talking with Robots about Architecture
Adam Rogers: Proof: The Science of Booze
Andy Weir: The Red Planet for Real
Abby Smith Rumsey: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future
Paul Saffo & Stewart Brand: Pace Layers Thinking
Neal Stephenson: Seveneves at The Interval
Geoffrey B West: The Universal Laws of Growth and Pace
Frank Ostaseski: What the Dying Teach the Living
Bjorn Lomborg: From Feel-Good to High-Yield Good: How to Improve Philanthropy and Aid
Jennifer Pahlka: Fixing Government: Bottom Up and Outside In
Steven Johnson: Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
Douglas Coupland: The Extreme Present
David Eagleman: The Brain and The Now
Jonathan Rose: The Well Tempered City
Seth Lloyd: Quantum Computer Reality
Kevin Kelly: The Next 30 Digital Years
Brian Christian: Algorithms to Live By
Walter Mischel: The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
Priyamvada Natarajan: Solving Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Jane Langdale: Radical Ag: C4 Rice and Beyond
Stephen Pyne: Fire Slow, Fire Fast, Fire Deep
Eric Cline: 1177 B.C.: When Civilization Collapsed
Philip Tetlock: Superforecasting
James Fallows: Civilization's Infrastructure
Saul Griffith: Infrastructure and Climate Change
Sara Seager: Other Earths. Other Life.
Ramez Naam: Enhancing Humans, Advancing Humanity
Neil Gaiman: How Stories Last
Beth Shapiro: How to Clone a Mammoth
Michael Shermer: The Long Arc of Moral Progress
Jonathon Keats: Envisioning Deep Time
Paul Saffo: The Creator Economy
David Keith: Patient Geoengineering
Jesse Ausubel: Nature is Rebounding
Kevin Kelly: Technium Unbound
Larry Harvey: Why The Man Keeps Burning
Drew Endy: The iGEM Revolution
Anne Neuberger: Inside the NSA
Adrian Hon: A History of the Future in 100 Objects
Stefan Kröpelin: Civilization’s Mysterious Desert Cradle
Sylvia Earle & Tierney Thys: Oceanic
Tony Hsieh: Helping Revitalize a City
Mariana Mazzucato: The Entrepreneurial State
Danny Hillis & Brian Eno: The Long Now, now
Richard Kurin: American History in 101 Objects
Adam Steltzner: Beyond Mars, Earth
Peter Schwartz: The Starships ARE Coming
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow
Craig Childs: Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth
Ed Lu: Anthropocene Astronomy: Thwarting Dangerous Asteroids Begins with Finding Them
Stewart Brand: Reviving Extinct Species
Nicholas Negroponte: Beyond Digital
George Dyson: No Time Is There
Chris Anderson: The Makers Revolution
Terry Hunt & Carl Lipo: The Statues Walked -- What Really Happened on Easter Island
Peter Warshall: Enchanted by the Sun
Lazar Kunstmann & Jon Lackman: Preservation without Permission
Steven Pinker: The Decline of Violence
Tim O'Reilly: Birth of the Global Mind
Elaine Pagels: The Truth About the Book of Revelations
Cory Doctorow: The Coming Century of War Against Your Computer
Benjamin Barber: If Mayors Ruled the World
Susan Freinkel: Eternal Plastic
Charles C. Mann: Living in the Homogenocene
Edward O. Wilson: The Social Conquest of Earth
Mark Lynas: The Nine Planetary Boundaries
Jim Richardson: Heirlooms
Lawrence Lessig: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It
Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 6
Brewster Kahle: Universal Access to All Knowledge
Laura Cunningham: Ten Millennia of California Ecology
Timothy Ferriss: Accelerated Learning in Accelerated Times
Geoffrey B West: Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster
Peter Kareiva: Conservation in the Real World
Carl Zimmer: Viral Time
Tim Flannery: Here on Earth
Ian Morris: Why the West Rules - For Now
Alexander Rose: Millennial Precedent
Matt Ridley: Deep Optimism
Mary Catherine Bateson: Live Longer, Think Longer
Philip K. Howard: Fixing Broken Government
Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 5
Rachel Sussman: The World's Oldest Living Organisms
Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought
Jane McGonigal & Stewart Brand: Long Conversation 19 of 19
Jane McGonigal & Tiffany Shlain: Long Conversation 18 of 19
Paul Hawken & Tiffany Shlain: Long Conversation 17 of 19
Paul Hawken & Katherine Fulton: Long Conversation 16 of 19
Katherine Fulton & Stuart Candy: Long Conversation 15 of 19
Danese Cooper & Stuart Candy: Long Conversation 14 of 19
Danese Cooper & Peter Schwartz: Long Conversation 13 of 19
Pete Worden & Peter Schwartz: Long Conversation 12 of 19
Ken Foster & Pete Worden: Long Conversation 11 of 19
Melissa Alexander & Ken Foster: Long Conversation 10 of 19
Melissa Alexander & Ken Wilson: Long Conversation 9 of 19
John Perry Barlow & Ken Wilson: Long Conversation 8 of 19
John Perry Barlow & Violet Blue: Long Conversation 7 of 19
Violet Blue & Robin Sloan: Long Conversation 6 of 19
Jill Tarter & Robin Sloan: Long Conversation 5 of 19
Emily Levine & Jill Tarter: Long Conversation 4 of 19
Saul Griffith & Emily Levine: Long Conversation 3 of 19
Jem Finer & Saul Griffith: Long Conversation 2 of 19
Jem Finer & Stewart Brand: Long Conversation 1 of 19
Martin Rees: Life's Future in the Cosmos
Jesse Schell: Visions of the Gamepocalypse
Frank Gavin: Five Ways to Use History Well
Ed Moses: Clean Fusion Power This Decade
Nils Gilman: Deviant Globalization
David Eagleman: Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization
Beth Noveck: Transparent Government
Alan Weisman: World Without Us, World With Us
Alexander Rose, Brian Eno, & Stewart Brand: Long Finance: The Enduring Value Conference
Wade Davis: The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4
Sander van der Leeuw: The Archaeology of Innovation
Stewart Brand: Rethinking Green
Arthur Ganson: Machines and the Breath of Time
Wayne Clough: Smithsonian Forever
Raoul Adamchak & Pamela Ronald: Organically Grown and Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future
Paul Romer: A Theory of History, with an Application
Michael Pollan: Deep Agriculture
Gavin Newsom & Stewart Brand: Cities and Time
Daniel Everett: Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future
Dmitry Orlov: Social Collapse Best Practices
Saul Griffith: Climate Change Recalculated
Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco
Drew Endy & Jim Thomas: Synthetic Biology Debate
Huey Johnson: Green Planning at Nation Scale
Peter Diamandis: Long-term X-Prizes
Neal Stephenson: ANATHEM Book Launch Event
Daniel Suarez: Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality
Edward Burtynsky: The 10,000-year Gallery
Paul Ehrlich: The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment
Iqbal Quadir: Technology Empowers the Poorest
Niall Ferguson & Peter Schwartz: Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress
Craig Venter: Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought
Paul Saffo: Embracing Uncertainty: the secret to effective forecasting
Joline Blais & Jon Ippolito: At the Edge of Art
Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Enduring Principles for Changing Times
Juan Enriquez: Mapping the Frontier of Knowledge
Rip Anderson & Gwyneth Cravens: Power to Save the World
Alex Wright: Glut: Mastering Information Though the Ages
Francis Fukuyama: 'The End of History' Revisited
Paul Hawken: The New Great Transformation
Steven Johnson: The Long Zoom
Frans Lanting: Life's Journey Through Time
Brian Fagan: We Are Not the First to Suffer Through Climate Change
Vernor Vinge: What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen?
Philip Tetlock: Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs
Philip Rosedale: 'Second Life:' What Do We Learn If We Digitize EVERYTHING?
Larry Brilliant, Richard Rockefeller, & Katherine Fulton: The Deeper News About the New Philanthropy
John Baez: Zooming Out in Time
Orville Schell: China Thinks Long-term, But Can It Relearn to Act Long-term?
John Rendon: Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short
Will Wright & Brian Eno: Playing with Time
Will Hearst & Chris Anderson: The Long Time Tail
Jimmy Wales: Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture
Kevin Kelly: The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method.
Stephen Lansing: Perfect Order: A Thousand Years in Bali
Ralph Cavanagh & Peter Schwartz: Nuclear Power, Climate Change and the Next 10,000 Years
Sam Harris: The View from the End of the World
Clay Shirky: Making Digital Durable: What Time Does to Categories
George Dyson, Freeman Dyson, & Esther Dyson: The Difficulty of Looking Far Ahead
Ray Kurzweil: Kurzweil's Law
Robert Fuller: Patient Revolution: Human Rights Past and Future
Jared Diamond: How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed
Robert Neuwirth: The 21st Century Medieval City
: Cities & Time
Spencer Beebe: Very Long-term Very Large-scale Biomimicry
Roger Kennedy: The Political History of North America from 25,000 BC to 12,000 AD
James Carse: Religious War In Light of the Infinite Game
Ken Dychtwald: The Consequences of Human Life Extension
Michael West: The Prospects of Human Life Extension
Paul Hawken: The Long Green
Danny Hillis: Progress on the 10,000-year Clock
Phillip Longman: The Depopulation Problem
Jill Tarter: The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence: Necessarily a Long-term Strategy
Bruce Sterling: The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole
David Rumsey: Mapping Time
Daniel Janzen: Third World Conservation: It's ALL Gardening
Rusty Schweickart: The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years
James Dewar: Long-term Policy Analysis
George Dyson: There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing
Peter Schwartz: The Art Of The Really Long View
Brian Eno: The Long Now