Concepts Long-term Thinking The Big Here Digital Dark Age Organizational Continuity Futures Millennial Precedent Archives Long Shorts Long News Projects Announcements Long Now Talks The Clock of the Long Now The Rosetta Project The Interval Long Bets Revive & Restore PanLex Manual For Civilization Disciplines Art Business Cities Civilization Climate Change Computing Culture Economics Energy Environment Evolution Genetics Globalization Government History Infrastructure Language Psychology Science Science Fiction Space Technology Year 02022 02021 02020 02019 02018 02017 02016 02015 02014 02013 02012 02011 02010 02009 02008 02007 02006 02005 02004 OLDER Announcements Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland speak at The Interval: June 14, 02017 By Mikl Em History Göbekli Tepe and the Worst Day in History Technological advances are revolutionizing the field of archaeology, resulting in new discoveries that are upending our previous understanding of the birth of civilization. Many scholars believe that few will be as consequential as Göbekli Tepe. By Ahmed Kabil Art Is Anything Original? The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Remediation By Ahmed Kabil Art A Monument to Outlast Humanity By Ahmed Kabil Long-term Thinking The Orrery at The Interval: An Invitation to Long-Term Thinking By Ahmed Kabil Civilization How Hard Would It Be To Restart Civilization From Scratch? From aqueducts to toasters, individual pieces of technology have long required complex infrastructures of civilization to properly function. By Ahmed Kabil Culture Tiffany Shlain Presents 50/50 Day By Ahmed Kabil Infrastructure These 1,000-Year-Old Windmills Work Perfectly, But Their Future is in Doubt By Ahmed Kabil Climate Change Could Reviving the Woolly Mammoth Help Solve Climate Change? By Ahmed Kabil Futures The Other 10,000 Year Project: Long-Term Thinking and Nuclear Waste The questions around nuclear waste storage — how to keep it safe from those who might wish to weaponize it, where to store it, by what methods, for how long, and with what markings, if any, to warn humans who might stumble upon it thousands of years in the future—require long-term thinking. By Ahmed Kabil
History Göbekli Tepe and the Worst Day in History Technological advances are revolutionizing the field of archaeology, resulting in new discoveries that are upending our previous understanding of the birth of civilization. Many scholars believe that few will be as consequential as Göbekli Tepe. By Ahmed Kabil
Civilization How Hard Would It Be To Restart Civilization From Scratch? From aqueducts to toasters, individual pieces of technology have long required complex infrastructures of civilization to properly function. By Ahmed Kabil
Infrastructure These 1,000-Year-Old Windmills Work Perfectly, But Their Future is in Doubt By Ahmed Kabil
Futures The Other 10,000 Year Project: Long-Term Thinking and Nuclear Waste The questions around nuclear waste storage — how to keep it safe from those who might wish to weaponize it, where to store it, by what methods, for how long, and with what markings, if any, to warn humans who might stumble upon it thousands of years in the future—require long-term thinking. By Ahmed Kabil