Friday, December 3rd, 02004

Ken Dychtwald

The Consequences of Human Life Extension

"THE CONSEQUENCES OF HUMAN LIFE EXTENSION" will be discussed by KEN DYCHTWALD at the next Seminar About Long-term Thinking, Friday, Dec. 3, 7pm, at the Golden Gate Club in the Presidio, San Francisco. Dychtwald is the author of Age Wave and Age Power: How the 21st Century will be Ruled by the New Old.

Friday, November 12th, 02004

Michael West

The Prospects of Human Life Extension

"THE PROSPECTS OF HUMAN LIFE EXTENSION" is the subject of the next Seminar About Long-term Thinking, Friday, Nov. 12, 7 pm, at the Fort Mason Conference Center in San Francisco. The speaker is MICHAEL WEST, founder of Geron, founder and CEO of Advanced Cell Technology, leading researcher in age-related degenerative disease and embryonic stem cells.

Friday, October 15th, 02004

Paul Hawken

The Long Green

PAUL HAWKEN, ur-environmentalist, is the next speaker in the series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking, Friday, October 15, 7 pm, at the Fort Mason Conference Center in San Francisco. His subject is "The Long Green."

Friday, September 10th, 02004

Danny Hillis

Progress on the 10,000-year Clock

DANNY HILLIS is the next speaker in the Seminars About Long-term Thinking series, Friday, September 10, 7pm, at the Fort Mason Conference Center in San Francisco. His topic is "Progress on the 10,000-year Clock."

Friday, August 13th, 02004

Phillip Longman

The Depopulation Problem

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Friday, July 9th, 02004

Jill Tarter

The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence: Necessarily a Long-term Strategy

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Friday, June 11th, 02004

Bruce Sterling

The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole

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Friday, May 14th, 02004

David Rumsey

Mapping Time

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Friday, April 9th, 02004

Daniel Janzen

Third World Conservation: It's ALL Gardening

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Friday, March 12th, 02004

Rusty Schweickart

The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years

The epitome of long-term thinking is to take seriously the protection of the Earth from massive asteroid impacts, which in the past have extincted as much as 90% of life on Earth.

This Friday, March 12, astronaut RUSTY SCHWEICKART will give a public lecture titled "The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years." It will detail graphically the results of his research on asteroid impact frequency and damage, along with what it will take to find and deflect future threatening asteroids.

Friday, February 13th, 02004

James Dewar

Long-term Policy Analysis

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Friday, January 9th, 02004

George Dyson

There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing

GEORGE DYSON is ringing a change on the famous 1959 lecture by physicist Richard Feynman which showed the way to nanotechnology. It was called,"There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom."