Long-term Thinking 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 Roman Krznaric & Kate Raworth What Doughnut Economics Can Learn From History Art The Work that Lasts How does a creative project become a magnum opus? By Allegra Rosenberg Long-term Thinking What We Don't Know About World Population History A new paper by Timothy Guinnane reveals the flaws and uncertainties involved in estimating historical population By Jacob Kuppermann Long-term Thinking How to Dance for Millions of Years The dances of the colorful manakins of South America are not just spectacles but monuments to generations of avian society. By Liam Taylor Economics In "The Ministry for the Future," New Ideas From Ancient Wisdom When we are bound in a system of reciprocity, not return on investment, we will be closer to being the kind of ancestors future people need. By Forrest Brown Long-term Thinking The Lasting Whole Earth Catalog Gray Area and The Internet Archive have made the Whole Earth Catalog and its descendants newly available online through the Whole Earth Index By Jacob Kuppermann Revive & Restore Controlling Nature Might Be in Our Nature The urge to reshape our environment is no transient social pressure. Instead, it’s a set of behaviors with deep evolutionary roots stretching back millions of years. By Andrew Tighe Long-term Thinking Why I Help Maintain a 3000-year-old Geoglyph Across cultures and across time, group rituals endure because they are about not just the activity itself, but the maintenance of a community and connections between geographically distributed groups, people, and ideas. By Jamie Stantonian Long-term Thinking Getting in Touch with "Your Future Self" Long Now talks with Hal Hershfield, author of a new book on how we can best think about our own futures Jacob Kuppermann in conversation with Hal Hershfield Digital Dark Age Shining a Light on the Digital Dark Age Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades. How might we secure our data so that it survives for generations? By Adrienne Bernhard
Long-term Thinking What We Don't Know About World Population History A new paper by Timothy Guinnane reveals the flaws and uncertainties involved in estimating historical population By Jacob Kuppermann
Long-term Thinking How to Dance for Millions of Years The dances of the colorful manakins of South America are not just spectacles but monuments to generations of avian society. By Liam Taylor
Economics In "The Ministry for the Future," New Ideas From Ancient Wisdom When we are bound in a system of reciprocity, not return on investment, we will be closer to being the kind of ancestors future people need. By Forrest Brown
Long-term Thinking The Lasting Whole Earth Catalog Gray Area and The Internet Archive have made the Whole Earth Catalog and its descendants newly available online through the Whole Earth Index By Jacob Kuppermann
Revive & Restore Controlling Nature Might Be in Our Nature The urge to reshape our environment is no transient social pressure. Instead, it’s a set of behaviors with deep evolutionary roots stretching back millions of years. By Andrew Tighe
Long-term Thinking Why I Help Maintain a 3000-year-old Geoglyph Across cultures and across time, group rituals endure because they are about not just the activity itself, but the maintenance of a community and connections between geographically distributed groups, people, and ideas. By Jamie Stantonian
Long-term Thinking Getting in Touch with "Your Future Self" Long Now talks with Hal Hershfield, author of a new book on how we can best think about our own futures Jacob Kuppermann in conversation with Hal Hershfield
Digital Dark Age Shining a Light on the Digital Dark Age Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades. How might we secure our data so that it survives for generations? By Adrienne Bernhard