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 Computing The AI Cargo Cult: The Myth of a Superhuman Artificial Intelligence In a new essay in Wired, Kevin Kelly confronts the idea that superhuman AI is inevitable. By Ahmed Kabil Archives The Nuclear Bunker Preserving Movie History Once a safe room for presidents, now an archive for nitrate reels. By Ahmed Kabil History Göbekli Tepe and the Worst Day in History Technological advances are revolutionizing the field of archaeology, resulting in new discoveries that are upending our previous understanding of the birth of civilization. Many scholars believe that few will be as consequential as Göbekli Tepe. By Ahmed Kabil Art Is Anything Original? The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Remediation By Ahmed Kabil Civilization How Hard Would It Be To Restart Civilization From Scratch? From aqueducts to toasters, individual pieces of technology have long required complex infrastructures of civilization to properly function. By Ahmed Kabil Futures The Other 10,000 Year Project: Long-Term Thinking and Nuclear Waste The questions around nuclear waste storage — how to keep it safe from those who might wish to weaponize it, where to store it, by what methods, for how long, and with what markings, if any, to warn humans who might stumble upon it thousands of years in the future—require long-term thinking. By Ahmed Kabil Economics A Brief Economic History of Time By Ahmed Kabil Long-term Thinking Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine For Richard, a crazy idea was an opportunity to either prove it wrong or prove it right. By Danny Hillis Long-term Thinking Edge Question 02017 By Ahmed Kabil Announcements Long Now Member Discount for "The Next Billion conference" Thursday October 13th By Andrew Warner
Computing The AI Cargo Cult: The Myth of a Superhuman Artificial Intelligence In a new essay in Wired, Kevin Kelly confronts the idea that superhuman AI is inevitable. By Ahmed Kabil
Archives The Nuclear Bunker Preserving Movie History Once a safe room for presidents, now an archive for nitrate reels. By Ahmed Kabil
History Göbekli Tepe and the Worst Day in History Technological advances are revolutionizing the field of archaeology, resulting in new discoveries that are upending our previous understanding of the birth of civilization. Many scholars believe that few will be as consequential as Göbekli Tepe. By Ahmed Kabil
Civilization How Hard Would It Be To Restart Civilization From Scratch? From aqueducts to toasters, individual pieces of technology have long required complex infrastructures of civilization to properly function. By Ahmed Kabil
Futures The Other 10,000 Year Project: Long-Term Thinking and Nuclear Waste The questions around nuclear waste storage — how to keep it safe from those who might wish to weaponize it, where to store it, by what methods, for how long, and with what markings, if any, to warn humans who might stumble upon it thousands of years in the future—require long-term thinking. By Ahmed Kabil
Long-term Thinking Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine For Richard, a crazy idea was an opportunity to either prove it wrong or prove it right. By Danny Hillis
Announcements Long Now Member Discount for "The Next Billion conference" Thursday October 13th By Andrew Warner