Civilization 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 Essays Elements of a Durable Civilization Civilizations come and go. Civilization continues. By Stewart Brand Science Fiction The Weather Out There A work of speculative fiction about communication between humans and across the stars — and what happens when that communication breaks down. By Andrew Dana Hudson Long Now Talks Neal Stephenson Polostan The Big Here Seeing the Trees for the Forest How to go from one world to one planet By Gus Mitchell The Big Here Becoming “Children of a Modest Star” Long Now talks with Jonathan Blake and Nils Gilman, authors of “Children of a Modest Star,” about pandemics, climate change, and the planetary systems required to deal with them. By Jacob Kuppermann Long Now Talks Members of Long Now Long Now Ignite Talks 02024 Culture The Enduring Trajectory of Jewish Fashion From the tabernacle to the tabloids By Em Seely-Katz Long-term Thinking What We Don't Know About World Population History A new paper by Timothy Guinnane reveals the flaws and uncertainties involved in estimating historical population By Jacob Kuppermann Culture The Epoch of the Child The teaching methods of Maria Montessori offer a unique approach to educating young minds about the vastness of geologic time, fostering an understanding of interconnectedness and a sense of responsibility for our shared world. But how many children are given the opportunity to wonder in this way? By Catherine Hervey Civilization Reimagining the Rise and Fall of Civilizations From ancient empires to the industrialized nation-states of our globally-interconnected world, complexity theory offers a fresh perspective on the past and possible futures of human societies. By Dries Daems
Essays Elements of a Durable Civilization Civilizations come and go. Civilization continues. By Stewart Brand
Science Fiction The Weather Out There A work of speculative fiction about communication between humans and across the stars — and what happens when that communication breaks down. By Andrew Dana Hudson
The Big Here Becoming “Children of a Modest Star” Long Now talks with Jonathan Blake and Nils Gilman, authors of “Children of a Modest Star,” about pandemics, climate change, and the planetary systems required to deal with them. By Jacob Kuppermann
Culture The Enduring Trajectory of Jewish Fashion From the tabernacle to the tabloids By Em Seely-Katz
Long-term Thinking What We Don't Know About World Population History A new paper by Timothy Guinnane reveals the flaws and uncertainties involved in estimating historical population By Jacob Kuppermann
Culture The Epoch of the Child The teaching methods of Maria Montessori offer a unique approach to educating young minds about the vastness of geologic time, fostering an understanding of interconnectedness and a sense of responsibility for our shared world. But how many children are given the opportunity to wonder in this way? By Catherine Hervey
Civilization Reimagining the Rise and Fall of Civilizations From ancient empires to the industrialized nation-states of our globally-interconnected world, complexity theory offers a fresh perspective on the past and possible futures of human societies. By Dries Daems