Science 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 Essays Elements of a Durable Civilization Civilizations come and go. Civilization continues. By Stewart Brand Long Now Talks Sara Imari Walker An Informational Theory of Life Long Now Talks Benjamin Bratton A Philosophy of Planetary Computation: From Antikythera to Synthetic Intelligence Nevada Bristlecone Preserve Enlarging the Question A wide-ranging discussion with the conceptual artist and experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats on his life, his philosophy, and a handful of his many projects, including Centuries of the Bristlecone, a forthcoming collaboration with Long Now and the Nevada Museum of Art. Jonathon Keats in conversation with William L. Fox The Big Here A Stream Flowing From The Sea Livestreams of underwater marine biology expeditions have become unlikely online hits, connecting scientists, superfans, and the sea. By Allegra Rosenberg The Big Here Becoming “Children of a Modest Star” Long Now talks with Jonathan Blake and Nils Gilman, authors of “Children of a Modest Star,” about pandemics, climate change, and the planetary systems required to deal with them. By Jacob Kuppermann Long Now Talks Members of Long Now Long Now Ignite Talks 02024 Infrastructure Stumbling Towards First Light Why has Chile, a country riven by inequality and political conflict, become a global sanctuary for the long science that drives astronomical discovery? By Paul Constance Climate Change On Exactitude in Climate Science Climate models could become infrastructure for our collective knowledge – but the choices we make in building these simulated worlds matter. By Kyle Barnes 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
Essays Elements of a Durable Civilization Civilizations come and go. Civilization continues. By Stewart Brand
Long Now Talks Benjamin Bratton A Philosophy of Planetary Computation: From Antikythera to Synthetic Intelligence
Nevada Bristlecone Preserve Enlarging the Question A wide-ranging discussion with the conceptual artist and experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats on his life, his philosophy, and a handful of his many projects, including Centuries of the Bristlecone, a forthcoming collaboration with Long Now and the Nevada Museum of Art. Jonathon Keats in conversation with William L. Fox
The Big Here A Stream Flowing From The Sea Livestreams of underwater marine biology expeditions have become unlikely online hits, connecting scientists, superfans, and the sea. By Allegra Rosenberg
The Big Here Becoming “Children of a Modest Star” Long Now talks with Jonathan Blake and Nils Gilman, authors of “Children of a Modest Star,” about pandemics, climate change, and the planetary systems required to deal with them. By Jacob Kuppermann
Infrastructure Stumbling Towards First Light Why has Chile, a country riven by inequality and political conflict, become a global sanctuary for the long science that drives astronomical discovery? By Paul Constance
Climate Change On Exactitude in Climate Science Climate models could become infrastructure for our collective knowledge – but the choices we make in building these simulated worlds matter. By Kyle Barnes
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