Technology 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 Digital Dark Age Shining a Light on the Digital Dark Age Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades. How might we secure our data so that it survives for generations? By Adrienne Bernhard Technology Digital Avatars and Our Refusal to Die Digital avatars — computer representations of real human beings — are moving increasingly from fiction into reality. Yet these technological advancements risk infringing on the rights of future generations, as well as upending how humans understand and experience death. By Rosalind Moran Long Now Talks Henry Farrell The Complex Aftermath of Globalization Long Now Talks Coco Krumme The False Promise of Optimization 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 Archives The First Digital Nation The island country of Tuvalu moves towards the virtual world as climate change threatens its physical territory. By Lilian Bernhardt Long Now Talks Ismail Ali Psychedelics: History at the Crossroads Long Now Talks Ryan Phelan Bringing Biotech to Wildlife Conservation Long Now Talks Ryan North How to Invent Everything
Digital Dark Age Shining a Light on the Digital Dark Age Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades. How might we secure our data so that it survives for generations? By Adrienne Bernhard
Technology Digital Avatars and Our Refusal to Die Digital avatars — computer representations of real human beings — are moving increasingly from fiction into reality. Yet these technological advancements risk infringing on the rights of future generations, as well as upending how humans understand and experience death. By Rosalind Moran
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
Archives The First Digital Nation The island country of Tuvalu moves towards the virtual world as climate change threatens its physical territory. By Lilian Bernhardt