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 Long Now Talks Becky Chambers & Annalee Newitz Resisting Dystopia 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 Long Now Talks Michael Tubbs Upsetting the Setup: Creating a California for All Long Now Talks Jonathan Haidt Democracy in the Next Cycle of History 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 Long Now Talks Long Now Members Geeky, fanciful, poignant, educational, with fresh angles on long-term thinking - Long Now Members shine in our annual Ignite Talks! The Clock of the Long Now How to Tell Time Using Stonehenge A new study sheds light on the precise mechanism through which Stonehenge may have told time. By Jacob Kuppermann Civilization What a mysterious set of golden tubes tells us about Bronze Age beer A set of precious metal rods found in a bronze age tomb more than a century ago may be the world’s oldest surviving straws. 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 Neri Oxman Nature x Humanity
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
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
Long Now Talks Long Now Members Geeky, fanciful, poignant, educational, with fresh angles on long-term thinking - Long Now Members shine in our annual Ignite Talks!
The Clock of the Long Now How to Tell Time Using Stonehenge A new study sheds light on the precise mechanism through which Stonehenge may have told time. By Jacob Kuppermann
Civilization What a mysterious set of golden tubes tells us about Bronze Age beer A set of precious metal rods found in a bronze age tomb more than a century ago may be the world’s oldest surviving straws. 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