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 Long Now Seminars Peter Schwartz, “The Art Of The Really Long View” By Robin Ward Culture Brian Eno, "The Long Now" We seem trapped in the Short Now. The present generation enjoys the greatest power in history, but it appears to have the shortest vision in history. That combination is lethal. By Stewart Brand Futures Yucca Mountain's Future There are no risk free answers. But it appears that the balance of risks and the least regrets scenario is to store the waste at Yucca Mt and invest in better re-cycling technology to create future options for our children. By Peter Schwartz The Big Here The Big Here and Long Now "Now" is never just a moment. The Long Now is the recognition that the precise moment you're in grows out of the past and is a seed for the future. By Brian Eno Essays Taking the Long View Real power lies in the domains of deep, slow change By Stewart Brand Art Visiting Petra By Stewart Brand Digital Dark Age Escaping the Digital Dark Age Digital storage is easy; digital preservation is not. By Stewart Brand Announcements Long Now timeline & current status Keeping track of our own Time By Alexander Rose Essays The Millennium Clock I sense that I am alive at a time of important change, and I feel a responsibility to make sure that the change comes out well. I plant my acorns knowing that I will never live to harvest the oaks. By Danny Hillis
Culture Brian Eno, "The Long Now" We seem trapped in the Short Now. The present generation enjoys the greatest power in history, but it appears to have the shortest vision in history. That combination is lethal. By Stewart Brand
Futures Yucca Mountain's Future There are no risk free answers. But it appears that the balance of risks and the least regrets scenario is to store the waste at Yucca Mt and invest in better re-cycling technology to create future options for our children. By Peter Schwartz
The Big Here The Big Here and Long Now "Now" is never just a moment. The Long Now is the recognition that the precise moment you're in grows out of the past and is a seed for the future. By Brian Eno
Digital Dark Age Escaping the Digital Dark Age Digital storage is easy; digital preservation is not. By Stewart Brand
Essays The Millennium Clock I sense that I am alive at a time of important change, and I feel a responsibility to make sure that the change comes out well. I plant my acorns knowing that I will never live to harvest the oaks. By Danny Hillis