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 Archives Interview: Rick Prelinger on Lost Landscapes 02021 & The Human Side of Infrastructure Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes films have become a Long Now December tradition. This year, his cinematic vision expands out from San Francisco to cover the infrastructure of California. We talk to Prelinger about the creative & archival process behind Lost Landscapes 02021. By Jacob Kuppermann Long Now Talks John Markoff Floating Upstream: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand Digital Dark Age The Future and the Past of the Metaverse Many thinkers who first explored the idea of the metaverse were skeptical it would be liberatory. Today's tech world seems less interested in such ethical quandaries. By Jacob Kuppermann Long Now Talks Rick Prelinger Lost Landscapes 02021 — Earth, Fire, Air, Water: California Infrastructures Long Now Talks Kim Stanley Robinson Climate Futures: Beyond 02022 Long Now Talks Neri Oxman Nature x Humanity The Big Here Stewart Brand Takes Us On “The Maintenance Race” Human life is driven by the essential drama of maintaining — of ensuring continued survival and working against the drive of entropy. Yet maintenance is a largely unheralded presence in our lives. By Jacob Kuppermann Futures The Future of Progress: A Concern for the Present Consequences of climate change have been framed as eventualities, giving those in power a comfort zone of inaction. Our generation does not have this privilege. By Lucienne Bacon & Lucas Kopinski Culture “Dune,” “Foundation,” and the Allure of Science Fiction that Thinks Long-Term Science fiction has long had a fascination with the extreme long-term. By Jacob Kuppermann Long Now Talks Neal Stephenson Termination Shock
Archives Interview: Rick Prelinger on Lost Landscapes 02021 & The Human Side of Infrastructure Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes films have become a Long Now December tradition. This year, his cinematic vision expands out from San Francisco to cover the infrastructure of California. We talk to Prelinger about the creative & archival process behind Lost Landscapes 02021. By Jacob Kuppermann
Digital Dark Age The Future and the Past of the Metaverse Many thinkers who first explored the idea of the metaverse were skeptical it would be liberatory. Today's tech world seems less interested in such ethical quandaries. By Jacob Kuppermann
Long Now Talks Rick Prelinger Lost Landscapes 02021 — Earth, Fire, Air, Water: California Infrastructures
The Big Here Stewart Brand Takes Us On “The Maintenance Race” Human life is driven by the essential drama of maintaining — of ensuring continued survival and working against the drive of entropy. Yet maintenance is a largely unheralded presence in our lives. By Jacob Kuppermann
Futures The Future of Progress: A Concern for the Present Consequences of climate change have been framed as eventualities, giving those in power a comfort zone of inaction. Our generation does not have this privilege. By Lucienne Bacon & Lucas Kopinski
Culture “Dune,” “Foundation,” and the Allure of Science Fiction that Thinks Long-Term Science fiction has long had a fascination with the extreme long-term. By Jacob Kuppermann