Science Fiction 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 Futures Envisioning Our Shared Storm We talk to the futurist, speculative fiction writer, and Long Now Member about scenario planning through fiction. Andrew Dana Hudson in conversation with Jacob Kuppermann Long Now Talks Johanna Hoffman Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need Science Fiction The Mammoth Steps In this science fiction short story, translation technology and norms of interspecies communication make possible a deep friendship between a boy and a de-extincted mammoth. By Andrew Dana Hudson Art MYR takes a Human Eye to Deep Time MYR is not just a collection of art but a place for contemplation, a way to internalize those worlds of deep time that can otherwise be so hard to grasp. By Jacob Kuppermann Manual For Civilization End-of-the-World Novels Are ‘Memento Mori’ for Civilization Why envisioning the collapse of civilization can be unexpectedly life-affirming. By Adam Lowenstein Futures How to Imagine Climate Futures The imaginary worlds of climate fiction can help ready us for whatever comes next. By Jacob Kuppermann Culture Cataloging the Many Lives of Stewart Brand An interview with John Markoff, the author of Whole Earth, a new biography of Long Now Co-Founder Stewart Brand By Ahmed Kabil Digital Dark Age The Future and the Past of the Metaverse Many thinkers who first explored the idea of the metaverse were skeptical it would be liberatory. Today's tech world seems less interested in such ethical quandaries. By Jacob Kuppermann Culture “Dune,” “Foundation,” and the Allure of Science Fiction that Thinks Long-Term Science fiction has long had a fascination with the extreme long-term. By Jacob Kuppermann Science Fiction The Art of World-Building in Science Fiction By The Long Now Foundation
Futures Envisioning Our Shared Storm We talk to the futurist, speculative fiction writer, and Long Now Member about scenario planning through fiction. Andrew Dana Hudson in conversation with Jacob Kuppermann
Long Now Talks Johanna Hoffman Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need
Science Fiction The Mammoth Steps In this science fiction short story, translation technology and norms of interspecies communication make possible a deep friendship between a boy and a de-extincted mammoth. By Andrew Dana Hudson
Art MYR takes a Human Eye to Deep Time MYR is not just a collection of art but a place for contemplation, a way to internalize those worlds of deep time that can otherwise be so hard to grasp. By Jacob Kuppermann
Manual For Civilization End-of-the-World Novels Are ‘Memento Mori’ for Civilization Why envisioning the collapse of civilization can be unexpectedly life-affirming. By Adam Lowenstein
Futures How to Imagine Climate Futures The imaginary worlds of climate fiction can help ready us for whatever comes next. By Jacob Kuppermann
Culture Cataloging the Many Lives of Stewart Brand An interview with John Markoff, the author of Whole Earth, a new biography of Long Now Co-Founder Stewart Brand By Ahmed Kabil
Digital Dark Age The Future and the Past of the Metaverse Many thinkers who first explored the idea of the metaverse were skeptical it would be liberatory. Today's tech world seems less interested in such ethical quandaries. By Jacob Kuppermann
Culture “Dune,” “Foundation,” and the Allure of Science Fiction that Thinks Long-Term Science fiction has long had a fascination with the extreme long-term. By Jacob Kuppermann