The Big Here 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 A Stream Flowing From The Sea Livestreams of underwater marine biology expeditions have become unlikely online hits, connecting scientists, superfans, and the sea. By Allegra Rosenberg The Big Here Seeing the Trees for the Forest How to go from one world to one planet By Gus Mitchell 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-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 The Big Here The Commodification of Air Our attempts to insulate ourselves from the outside world are doomed to failure. By Leo Kim Culture The Epoch of the Child The teaching methods of Maria Montessori offer a unique approach to educating young minds about the vastness of geologic time, fostering an understanding of interconnectedness and a sense of responsibility for our shared world. But how many children are given the opportunity to wonder in this way? By Catherine Hervey Environment Reviving the Vicuña The national animal of Peru has faced threats to its existence since the Spanish colonization of South America five centuries ago. Now, the reestablishment of an Indigenous Andean tradition might be its best bet for survival. By Heather Jasper 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 Manual For Civilization Inheriting My Grandmother's James Michener Collection James Michener’s books put forth the argument that thinking in the wider context of place and time doesn’t just benefit you as an artist; in the right hands, it has the capacity to make a lasting impact on the world. By Karen Fischer 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
The Big Here A Stream Flowing From The Sea Livestreams of underwater marine biology expeditions have become unlikely online hits, connecting scientists, superfans, and the sea. By Allegra Rosenberg
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-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
The Big Here The Commodification of Air Our attempts to insulate ourselves from the outside world are doomed to failure. By Leo Kim
Culture The Epoch of the Child The teaching methods of Maria Montessori offer a unique approach to educating young minds about the vastness of geologic time, fostering an understanding of interconnectedness and a sense of responsibility for our shared world. But how many children are given the opportunity to wonder in this way? By Catherine Hervey
Environment Reviving the Vicuña The national animal of Peru has faced threats to its existence since the Spanish colonization of South America five centuries ago. Now, the reestablishment of an Indigenous Andean tradition might be its best bet for survival. By Heather Jasper
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
Manual For Civilization Inheriting My Grandmother's James Michener Collection James Michener’s books put forth the argument that thinking in the wider context of place and time doesn’t just benefit you as an artist; in the right hands, it has the capacity to make a lasting impact on the world. By Karen Fischer
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