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 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 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 Environment Building Nature at Silver Falls Oregon's largest state park is less a preservation of nature and more a monument to the power of ecological restoration, of intentional human rehabilitation of the land. By Zeb Larson
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
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
Environment Building Nature at Silver Falls Oregon's largest state park is less a preservation of nature and more a monument to the power of ecological restoration, of intentional human rehabilitation of the land. By Zeb Larson