Essays 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-term Thinking Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning Pace layers provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing feedback throughout the system. It is in the contradictions between these layers that civilization finds its surest health. I propose six significant levels of pace and size in a robust and adaptable civilization. By Stewart Brand Announcements Danny Hillis publishes new essay on Long-Term Timekeeping in the Clock of the Long Now By The Long Now Foundation Essays The Future Will Have to Wait By Alexander Rose Essays Teaching old dogs new tricks By Austin Brown Environment Civilization versus Forestation: Bristlecone Pines in the Anthropocene By Charlotte Hajer Essays Charles Mann on the State of the Species By Austin Brown Essays Looking Back on the 21st Century By Charlotte Hajer Essays Clock in the Mountain Like a heart beating while we sleep, the Clock in the mountain keeps time even when we pretend the past did not happen and the future will not come. By Kevin Kelly Essays The Future Will Have to Wait Ten thousand years from now: can you imagine that day? Okay, but do you? Do you believe “the Future” is going to happen? By Michael Chabon The Big Here The Big Here and Long Now "Now" is never just a moment. The Long Now is the recognition that the precise moment you're in grows out of the past and is a seed for the future. By Brian Eno
Long-term Thinking Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning Pace layers provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing feedback throughout the system. It is in the contradictions between these layers that civilization finds its surest health. I propose six significant levels of pace and size in a robust and adaptable civilization. By Stewart Brand
Announcements Danny Hillis publishes new essay on Long-Term Timekeeping in the Clock of the Long Now By The Long Now Foundation
Environment Civilization versus Forestation: Bristlecone Pines in the Anthropocene By Charlotte Hajer
Essays Clock in the Mountain Like a heart beating while we sleep, the Clock in the mountain keeps time even when we pretend the past did not happen and the future will not come. By Kevin Kelly
Essays The Future Will Have to Wait Ten thousand years from now: can you imagine that day? Okay, but do you? Do you believe “the Future” is going to happen? By Michael Chabon
The Big Here The Big Here and Long Now "Now" is never just a moment. The Long Now is the recognition that the precise moment you're in grows out of the past and is a seed for the future. By Brian Eno