History 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 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 Long Now Talks Jared Farmer Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees Long Now Talks Abby Smith Rumsey Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures Long-term Thinking The Fire That Never Goes Out What can we learn about long-term thinking from millennia-old Zoroastrian fire rituals? By Richard Fisher Long-term Thinking Understanding the Modern World-System in the Longue Durée To understand the world we’re living in, we need to look beyond the nation-state and towards something bigger. By James Anderson The Big Here The Truth About Antarctica The only continent with no history of human habitation, the vast ice fields of Antarctica have formed a blank slate onto which humanity can project itself: all of itself, from the imperial superego to the conspiratorial id. By Allegra Rosenberg Genetics How DNA is Helping Black Brazilians Uncover Their Roots A new genetics study sheds light on the deep legacy of colonization on the people of Brazil By Raphael Tsavkko Long Now Talks Ismail Ali Psychedelics: History at the Crossroads Long Now Talks Ryan North How to Invent Everything Government News from Now-here It's time to rethink revolutionary time. By Charlotte Jones
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
Long-term Thinking The Fire That Never Goes Out What can we learn about long-term thinking from millennia-old Zoroastrian fire rituals? By Richard Fisher
Long-term Thinking Understanding the Modern World-System in the Longue Durée To understand the world we’re living in, we need to look beyond the nation-state and towards something bigger. By James Anderson
The Big Here The Truth About Antarctica The only continent with no history of human habitation, the vast ice fields of Antarctica have formed a blank slate onto which humanity can project itself: all of itself, from the imperial superego to the conspiratorial id. By Allegra Rosenberg
Genetics How DNA is Helping Black Brazilians Uncover Their Roots A new genetics study sheds light on the deep legacy of colonization on the people of Brazil By Raphael Tsavkko