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 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 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 Science The Three-Century Lifespan of the Modern Bee The preservation of individual bee specimens across the centuries allows us to embrace the temporal expanse of what came before us, and leave good records for those who follow. By A'liya Spinner 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
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
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
Science The Three-Century Lifespan of the Modern Bee The preservation of individual bee specimens across the centuries allows us to embrace the temporal expanse of what came before us, and leave good records for those who follow. By A'liya Spinner
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