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Launched by Stewart Brand in 02003, Long Now Talks has invited more than 400 leading thinkers to share their civilization-scale ideas with a live audience on stage in San Francisco and with millions more around the globe through our podcast and videos.

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Apr 22, 02025

Kim Carson

Inspired by Intelligence

Apr 1, 02025

Sara Imari Walker

An Informational Theory of Life

Mar 27, 02025

Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson

Abundance

Mar 19, 02025

Kim Stanley Robinson & Stephen Heintz

A Logic For The Future

Feb 25, 02025

K Allado-McDowell

On Neural Media

Feb 14, 02025

Ahmed Best

Feel The Future

Jan 29, 02025

Benjamin Bratton

A Philosophy of Planetary Computation

Dec 9, 02024

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes 02024

Nov 22, 02024

Roman Krznaric & Kate Raworth

What Doughnut Economics Can Learn From History

Oct 16, 02024

Neal Stephenson

Polostan

May 29, 02024

Members of Long Now

Ignite Talks 02024

Mar 12, 02024

Alicia Escott & Heidi Quante

The Bureau of Linguistical Reality Performance Lecture

Feb 6, 02024

Jonathan Cordero

Indigenous Sovereign Futures

Jan 23, 02024

Denise Hearn

Embodied Economies

Dec 4, 02023

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes 02023

Nov 14, 02023

Jared Farmer

Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees

Oct 10, 02023

Abby Smith Rumsey

Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures

Sep 26, 02023

Henry Farrell

The Complex Aftermath of Globalization

Sep 12, 02023

Coco Krumme

The False Promise of Optimization

Aug 22, 02023

Chelsea T. Hicks & Bette Adriaanse

Radical Sharing

Jul 11, 02023

Long Now Members

Ignite Talks 02023

May 12, 02023

Anthropocene Magazine

The Climate Parables: Reporting from the Future

Apr 18, 02023

Becky Chambers & Annalee Newitz

Resisting Dystopia

Apr 4, 02023

Ryan Phelan

Bringing Biotech to Wildlife Conservation

Mar 7, 02023

Jenny Odell

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Feb 14, 02023

Ismail Ali

Psychedelics: History at the Crossroads

Jan 31, 02023

Ryan North

How to Invent Everything

Dec 13, 02022

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes 02022 Bay and Gateway

Nov 3, 02022

Alicia Eggert

This Moment Used To Be The Future

Oct 12, 02022

Johanna Hoffman

Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need

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