Culture 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 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 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 Art A Film 600 Years in the Making Two filmmakers are two years into production on a new film exploring slowness, long-term thinking, and our relationship with time. If all goes as planned, they'll be at it for another six centuries. By Patrick Shen 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! 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 Long Now Talks Dorie Clark The Long Game: How to be a long-term thinker in a short-term world The Rosetta Project Linguistic Data in the Long View Where have we succeeded in moving knowledge into the future? Where have our efforts fallen short? What will help our data last and be meaningful in the future? By Laura Welcher Archives Interview: Rick Prelinger on Lost Landscapes 02021 & The Human Side of Infrastructure Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes films have become a Long Now December tradition. This year, his cinematic vision expands out from San Francisco to cover the infrastructure of California. We talk to Prelinger about the creative & archival process behind Lost Landscapes 02021. By Jacob Kuppermann Long Now Talks John Markoff Floating Upstream: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand Culture “Dune,” “Foundation,” and the Allure of Science Fiction that Thinks Long-Term Science fiction has long had a fascination with the extreme long-term. By Jacob Kuppermann
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
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
Art A Film 600 Years in the Making Two filmmakers are two years into production on a new film exploring slowness, long-term thinking, and our relationship with time. If all goes as planned, they'll be at it for another six centuries. By Patrick Shen
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!
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
The Rosetta Project Linguistic Data in the Long View Where have we succeeded in moving knowledge into the future? Where have our efforts fallen short? What will help our data last and be meaningful in the future? By Laura Welcher
Archives Interview: Rick Prelinger on Lost Landscapes 02021 & The Human Side of Infrastructure Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes films have become a Long Now December tradition. This year, his cinematic vision expands out from San Francisco to cover the infrastructure of California. We talk to Prelinger about the creative & archival process behind Lost Landscapes 02021. By Jacob Kuppermann
Culture “Dune,” “Foundation,” and the Allure of Science Fiction that Thinks Long-Term Science fiction has long had a fascination with the extreme long-term. By Jacob Kuppermann