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 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 Long-term Thinking Peering Into The Invisible Present How datasets spanning decades and nature apps are expanding our ecological attention span into the long now By Paul Constance Futures Conceiving the Future of Reproductive Technology In-Vitro Fertilization has gone from science fiction to a reality. Now, new technologies are offering some the genetic engineering tools to more deeply control our reproductive future. But are these reproductive technologies saviors, threats, or something in between? By Laura Jayne The Big Here The Greenhouse Effect, Martian-style In order to properly debate our potential future on Mars, it makes sense to take the long view, considering the broader geological history of the world beyond ours. By Jacob Kuppermann Long Now Talks Long Now Members Geeky, fanciful, poignant, educational, with fresh angles on long-term thinking - Long Now Members shine in our annual Ignite Talks! 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
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
Long-term Thinking Peering Into The Invisible Present How datasets spanning decades and nature apps are expanding our ecological attention span into the long now By Paul Constance
Futures Conceiving the Future of Reproductive Technology In-Vitro Fertilization has gone from science fiction to a reality. Now, new technologies are offering some the genetic engineering tools to more deeply control our reproductive future. But are these reproductive technologies saviors, threats, or something in between? By Laura Jayne
The Big Here The Greenhouse Effect, Martian-style In order to properly debate our potential future on Mars, it makes sense to take the long view, considering the broader geological history of the world beyond ours. By Jacob Kuppermann
Long Now Talks Long Now Members Geeky, fanciful, poignant, educational, with fresh angles on long-term thinking - Long Now Members shine in our annual Ignite Talks!
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