Computing 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 Interspecies Ecologies Why the Physics Underlying Life is Fundamental and Computation is Not Our ability to explain gravity fundamentally changed how we interact with our world. So too might an explanatory framework for life transform our future. By Sara Imari Walker Long Now Talks Kim Carson Inspired by Intelligence: Purpose and Creativity in the AI Era Long Now Talks Benjamin Bratton A Philosophy of Planetary Computation: From Antikythera to Synthetic Intelligence Climate Change On Exactitude in Climate Science Climate models could become infrastructure for our collective knowledge – but the choices we make in building these simulated worlds matter. By Kyle Barnes Technology Digital Avatars and Our Refusal to Die Digital avatars — computer representations of real human beings — are moving increasingly from fiction into reality. Yet these technological advancements risk infringing on the rights of future generations, as well as upending how humans understand and experience death. By Rosalind Moran Long Now Talks Coco Krumme The False Promise of Optimization Culture Cataloging the Many Lives of Stewart Brand An interview with John Markoff, the author of Whole Earth, a new biography of Long Now Co-Founder Stewart Brand By Ahmed Kabil 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 Digital Dark Age The Next 25(0[0]) Years of the Internet Archive "The Library of Alexandria is best known for burning down." The Internet Archive looks "wayforward" in hopes of avoiding the same fate. By Jacob Kuppermann Computing Touching the Future In search of a new story for the future of artificial intelligence, Long Now speaker Genevieve Bell looks back to its cybernetic origins — and keeps on looking, thousands of years into the past. By The Long Now Foundation
Interspecies Ecologies Why the Physics Underlying Life is Fundamental and Computation is Not Our ability to explain gravity fundamentally changed how we interact with our world. So too might an explanatory framework for life transform our future. By Sara Imari Walker
Long Now Talks Benjamin Bratton A Philosophy of Planetary Computation: From Antikythera to Synthetic Intelligence
Climate Change On Exactitude in Climate Science Climate models could become infrastructure for our collective knowledge – but the choices we make in building these simulated worlds matter. By Kyle Barnes
Technology Digital Avatars and Our Refusal to Die Digital avatars — computer representations of real human beings — are moving increasingly from fiction into reality. Yet these technological advancements risk infringing on the rights of future generations, as well as upending how humans understand and experience death. By Rosalind Moran
Culture Cataloging the Many Lives of Stewart Brand An interview with John Markoff, the author of Whole Earth, a new biography of Long Now Co-Founder Stewart Brand By Ahmed Kabil
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
Digital Dark Age The Next 25(0[0]) Years of the Internet Archive "The Library of Alexandria is best known for burning down." The Internet Archive looks "wayforward" in hopes of avoiding the same fate. By Jacob Kuppermann
Computing Touching the Future In search of a new story for the future of artificial intelligence, Long Now speaker Genevieve Bell looks back to its cybernetic origins — and keeps on looking, thousands of years into the past. By The Long Now Foundation