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 The Big Here The Commodification of Air Our attempts to insulate ourselves from the outside world are doomed to failure. By Leo Kim Environment The Future Of Invasive Species Mitigation From the largest lake in China to the swamps of Florida, predicting and mitigating invasive species are among the defining conservation challenges of our time. By Brian Sinclair Civilization Reimagining the Rise and Fall of Civilizations From ancient empires to the industrialized nation-states of our globally-interconnected world, complexity theory offers a fresh perspective on the past and possible futures of human societies. By Dries Daems Long Now Talks Jared Farmer Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees Long Now Talks Members of Long Now Long Now Member Ignite Talks 02023 Science The Shocking Medical History of Electric Fish How a piscine biomedical tradition stretching from Ancient Egypt to Colonial Guyana helped create the first batteries By Ramsha Zubairi 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 Long Now Talks Climate Fiction Storytellers The Climate Parables: Reporting from the Future Long Now Talks Ryan Phelan Bringing Biotech to Wildlife Conservation Long Bets A Fusion Breakthrough & A Lesson On The Pace of Progress The National Ignition Facility has conducted a nuclear fusion reaction that produced more energy than it consumed in a scientific advance long-predicted by many — including Long Now co-founder Danny Hillis. By Jacob Kuppermann
The Big Here The Commodification of Air Our attempts to insulate ourselves from the outside world are doomed to failure. By Leo Kim
Environment The Future Of Invasive Species Mitigation From the largest lake in China to the swamps of Florida, predicting and mitigating invasive species are among the defining conservation challenges of our time. By Brian Sinclair
Civilization Reimagining the Rise and Fall of Civilizations From ancient empires to the industrialized nation-states of our globally-interconnected world, complexity theory offers a fresh perspective on the past and possible futures of human societies. By Dries Daems
Science The Shocking Medical History of Electric Fish How a piscine biomedical tradition stretching from Ancient Egypt to Colonial Guyana helped create the first batteries By Ramsha Zubairi
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
Long Bets A Fusion Breakthrough & A Lesson On The Pace of Progress The National Ignition Facility has conducted a nuclear fusion reaction that produced more energy than it consumed in a scientific advance long-predicted by many — including Long Now co-founder Danny Hillis. By Jacob Kuppermann