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 Futures Conceiving the Future of Reproductive Technology In-Vitro Fertilization has gone from science fiction to a reality. Now, new technologies are offering some the genetic engineering tools to more deeply control our reproductive future. But are these reproductive technologies saviors, threats, or something in between? By Laura Jayne Long Now Talks Johanna Hoffman Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need Culture Mythmaking for Burning Ground In 19th century Iceland, reframing aggressive nature as a source of belonging shaped a myth that built a more resilient future. We can do the same. By Johanna Hoffman Climate Change Breaking a Vicious Circle of Climate Change in Zimbabwe As climate migration pushes wildlife in Zimbabwe’s lush Eastern Highlands to extinction, how can this region find ways to adapt? By Andrew Mambondiyani Technology Handmade There is something more actual about the artisanal. By Grant McCracken Long Now Talks Michael Tubbs Upsetting the Setup: Creating a California for All Science Fiction The Mammoth Steps In this science fiction short story, translation technology and norms of interspecies communication make possible a deep friendship between a boy and a de-extincted mammoth. By Andrew Dana Hudson Long Now Talks Jonathan Haidt Democracy in the Next Cycle of History Poetry Four Poems These poems explore the passing of time and include themes that move from the microscopic world to the macroscopic world regarding human behavior. By James Steck Climate Change Living in Mangrove Time If we leave the mangroves to grow in their own time, rather than having to endure and be stunted by the pressures of our own, what stories could they tell us? By Eleonor Botoman
Futures Conceiving the Future of Reproductive Technology In-Vitro Fertilization has gone from science fiction to a reality. Now, new technologies are offering some the genetic engineering tools to more deeply control our reproductive future. But are these reproductive technologies saviors, threats, or something in between? By Laura Jayne
Long Now Talks Johanna Hoffman Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need
Culture Mythmaking for Burning Ground In 19th century Iceland, reframing aggressive nature as a source of belonging shaped a myth that built a more resilient future. We can do the same. By Johanna Hoffman
Climate Change Breaking a Vicious Circle of Climate Change in Zimbabwe As climate migration pushes wildlife in Zimbabwe’s lush Eastern Highlands to extinction, how can this region find ways to adapt? By Andrew Mambondiyani
Science Fiction The Mammoth Steps In this science fiction short story, translation technology and norms of interspecies communication make possible a deep friendship between a boy and a de-extincted mammoth. By Andrew Dana Hudson
Poetry Four Poems These poems explore the passing of time and include themes that move from the microscopic world to the macroscopic world regarding human behavior. By James Steck
Climate Change Living in Mangrove Time If we leave the mangroves to grow in their own time, rather than having to endure and be stunted by the pressures of our own, what stories could they tell us? By Eleonor Botoman