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-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 The River Twice The rebirth of formerly polluted urban waterways is one of the signal triumphs of long-term thinking. Why do we keep forgetting how it happened? By Paul Constance Announcements Honoring Alexander Rose A tribute to Alexander Rose as he steps down from his role as Long Now's founding Executive Director, as told by the people who know him best. By Jacob Kuppermann Long Now Talks Jared Farmer Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees Long-term Thinking A Field Trip to Another Earth Long Now makes a pilgrimage to a forgotten megastructure. By Alexander Rose 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 Long-term Thinking The Heresy of Decline Are we ready to normalize depopulation? By Paul Constance
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 The River Twice The rebirth of formerly polluted urban waterways is one of the signal triumphs of long-term thinking. Why do we keep forgetting how it happened? By Paul Constance
Announcements Honoring Alexander Rose A tribute to Alexander Rose as he steps down from his role as Long Now's founding Executive Director, as told by the people who know him best. By Jacob Kuppermann
Long-term Thinking A Field Trip to Another Earth Long Now makes a pilgrimage to a forgotten megastructure. By Alexander Rose
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