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 Evolution How Humans Grew Acorn Brains If we are going to tackle humanity's biggest challenges, we will need to use our unrivaled ability to think long-term. Understanding how we developed this ability can help us use it to its full potential. By Roman Krznaric Environment Building Nature at Silver Falls Oregon's largest state park is less a preservation of nature and more a monument to the power of ecological restoration, of intentional human rehabilitation of the land. By Zeb Larson Archives Fandom Relics and the Enthusiastic Past Fandom memory offers a lens through which to understand the challenges of knowledge preservation between generations and across technologies. By Allegra Rosenberg Long Now Talks Alicia Eggert This Moment Used To Be The Future Evolution E. coli in the Long View E. coli has been with us for untold generations — more of theirs than ours, to be sure — and we have evolved together in both commensal and adversarial ways. By Jacob Kuppermann Art MYR takes a Human Eye to Deep Time MYR is not just a collection of art but a place for contemplation, a way to internalize those worlds of deep time that can otherwise be so hard to grasp. By Jacob Kuppermann Long-term Thinking The Need for Long-term Research Long-term research is vital, but rare. Long Now Board Member Kevin Kelly on what we can do to make it common and incentivized. By Kevin Kelly Manual For Civilization End-of-the-World Novels Are ‘Memento Mori’ for Civilization Why envisioning the collapse of civilization can be unexpectedly life-affirming. By Adam Lowenstein The Big Here The Greenhouse Effect, Martian-style In order to properly debate our potential future on Mars, it makes sense to take the long view, considering the broader geological history of the world beyond ours. By Jacob Kuppermann Environment Deep Time Underground Finland’s nuclear waste experts have, for decades, quietly envisioned distant future ecosystems. Exploring their thinking anthropologically can expand our awareness of time. By Vincent Ialenti
Evolution How Humans Grew Acorn Brains If we are going to tackle humanity's biggest challenges, we will need to use our unrivaled ability to think long-term. Understanding how we developed this ability can help us use it to its full potential. By Roman Krznaric
Environment Building Nature at Silver Falls Oregon's largest state park is less a preservation of nature and more a monument to the power of ecological restoration, of intentional human rehabilitation of the land. By Zeb Larson
Archives Fandom Relics and the Enthusiastic Past Fandom memory offers a lens through which to understand the challenges of knowledge preservation between generations and across technologies. By Allegra Rosenberg
Evolution E. coli in the Long View E. coli has been with us for untold generations — more of theirs than ours, to be sure — and we have evolved together in both commensal and adversarial ways. By Jacob Kuppermann
Art MYR takes a Human Eye to Deep Time MYR is not just a collection of art but a place for contemplation, a way to internalize those worlds of deep time that can otherwise be so hard to grasp. By Jacob Kuppermann
Long-term Thinking The Need for Long-term Research Long-term research is vital, but rare. Long Now Board Member Kevin Kelly on what we can do to make it common and incentivized. By Kevin Kelly
Manual For Civilization End-of-the-World Novels Are ‘Memento Mori’ for Civilization Why envisioning the collapse of civilization can be unexpectedly life-affirming. By Adam Lowenstein
The Big Here The Greenhouse Effect, Martian-style In order to properly debate our potential future on Mars, it makes sense to take the long view, considering the broader geological history of the world beyond ours. By Jacob Kuppermann
Environment Deep Time Underground Finland’s nuclear waste experts have, for decades, quietly envisioned distant future ecosystems. Exploring their thinking anthropologically can expand our awareness of time. By Vincent Ialenti