People of Long Now

James Anderson has taught college courses as an adjunct professor and now works as a freelance writer/journalist. James is from Illinois but currently resides in Riverside, California. He's a member of the IWW Freelance Journalists Union. You can read and subscribe to his newsletter at waywards.substack.com.

Devon Balwit walks and works in the Pacific Northwest. Her poetry, reviews and more can be found here.

Xander Balwit is a writer and artist from Portland, Oregon. Unremittingly interested in humanity's future, Xander explores the plausible, dismal, and hopeful in her work. Her writing has appeared in Asterisk Magazine, New Verse News, Landlocked Magazine, and Grounded Grub.  

Brianna Barnes has an MFA from Indiana University. In 02019, she attended the Tin House Summer Workshop and was awarded an author fellowship at the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She's been published in Anthropocene, 300 Days of Sun, and Channel Magazine. She is a 02023 category winner of the Welkin International Writing Prize.

Kyle Barnes is a researcher, technologist, writer, and climate scientist based in Brooklyn, NY.

Adrienne is a Los Angeles-born, Brooklyn-based freelance journalist who focuses on issues of sustainability, mineral resources, technology, ephemera and the environment.

Lilian Bernhardt is a freelance writer and journalist based in Australia.  

Davide Bocelli has been helping Long Now speak Italian for more than a decade now (almost two). He has organized or been a guest and keynote speaker to conferences in Italy. He is also the translator of Stewart Brand's "The Clock of the Long Now" in Italian, with a special foreword by Brian Eno. And he's the author of several blog posts for the Blog

Eleonor Botoman is currently a master’s student in NYU’s Experimental Humanities and Museum Studies program where she studies environmental justice and climate change impacts in the art world. They have previously held positions at Brooklyn Art Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Center for Architecture. Their art and literary criticism has appeared in C Magazine, Artforum, CURSOR, and more. When she’

A lifelong science enthusiast, Lily tells stories that make science shine. She owns Corpus Callosum Consulting, LLC, a company that creates content in the fields of Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience. She holds a Master of Science degree in Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience. Like the corpus callosum, her work integrates hemispheres by making complex and esoteric scientific concepts easily understood by those in non-scientific settings. She

Austin joined the Foundation's staff in August 02007.  He's worked on the Seminars About Long-term Thinking, Long Bets, the Membership program, written for Long Views and the Quarterly Newsletters and helped manage the Museum & Store.  The inner- and inter-workings of things - especially brains, cities, evolution and computers - fascinate him.  He is pleased by recursion.

Forrest Brown is a climate writer and the creator of the podcast Stories for Earth discussing works of climate fiction and the newsletter Sticky Weather covering climate change in the Southern United States. He lives in Decatur, Georgia with his wife and cats.

Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Moonglow and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, among many others. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their children.

Paul Constance is a writer and consultant who studies public policy in areas including corruption, human fertility, ecosystem restoration and pension reform. He was born and raised in Argentina and currently lives in Virginia.  

Jason Crawford is the founder of The Roots of Progress, where he writes and speaks about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress. Previously, he spent 18 years as a software engineer, engineering manager, and startup founder.

Dries Daems is an archaeologist who specializes in the development of social complexity, urbanism and economy in the first millennium BCE Mediterranean. In his work, he combines complex systems thinking with in-depth studies of ancient material culture, and innovative digital methodologies such as computational modeling and network science to explore patterns of interaction, connectivity and exchange. He uses this background to think broadly on long-term

Stewart Dickson received a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 1981 and is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu. The primary result of his undergraduate career was a United States Patent for a stringed musical instrument with electrical feedback, 1981.

Mr. Dickson's first professional one-man exhibition of sculpture and computer-assisted art was in 1982.

Stewart Dickson

Karen Fischer is a freelance writer and editor. Her journalism has appeared in The Verge, EATER, and New Mexico Magazine, among other publications.

Richard Fisher is the author of The Long View: Why We Need to Transform How the World Sees Time, and a senior journalist for BBC.com.

William L. Fox is founding Director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada, and has variously been called an art critic, science writer, and cultural geographer. He has published fifteen books on cognition and landscape, hundreds of essays in art monographs, magazines and journals, and fifteen collections of poetry. Among his nonfiction titles are Aereality: On the

Nils Gilman is the Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President at the Berggruen Institute, in which capacity he directs the day-to-day activities of the Institute, leads its research program, and serves as Deputy Editor of Noema Magazine. He is the author of Mandarins of the Future: Modernization Theory in Cold War America (2004), Deviant Globalization: Black Market Economy in the 21st Century (2011), and

Taras Grescoe is the author of eight non-fiction books, including The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past, published in 02023 by Greystone.

Tony Hansmann's Open Source Consulting (OSC) has spent a decade working with companies using UNIX/Linux compute-farms to deliver their product. We have developed a reliable method for establishing and running large scale IT operations.

Tony has helped Long Now with setting up and maintaining its digital infrastructure, and periodically coming out to the Clock site to provide us with mango sticky rice.

Leah Hudson Leva is an editor and writer from New Zealand, living in Berlin. She has been published by Insider, Atlas Obscura, and Penguin Random House New Zealand. Leah loves to write about sustainable urban development, mental health, and matters of the heart.

Hal Hershfield is a Professor of Marketing, Behavioral Decision Making, and Psychology at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. His work focuses on helping people make better long-term decisions. His book Your Future Self was published in June 02023.

Catherine Hervey's essays and poetry have appeared in The Washington Post, Books and Culture, and The Christian Century, among other publications. She is a former contributor for Ruminate and a 2020-21 Emerging Writer at The Collegeville Institute.

Johanna Hoffman is an urbanist, researcher, and writer working in the space between design, planning, fiction, and futures. She specializes in developing tools, tactics, and strategies for navigating greater degrees of urban uncertainty and change. A founder of the research and action institute Design for Adaptation, she uses strategic planning and speculative practice to help communities, cities, and organizations survey the impacts of potential futures

Andrew Dana Hudson is a speculative fiction writer, sustainability researcher, editor and futurist. He is the author of Our Shared Storm: A Novel of Five Climate Futures (02022), as well as over twenty short stories, which have appeared in Slate Future Tense, Lightspeed Magazine, Vice Terraform, MIT Technology Review, Grist, and many more.  He is an Imaginary College Fellow at the Arizona State University Center

Vincent Ialenti is a cultural anthropologist who studies the various ways in which human communities understand time and envision the future. He is currently a Berggruen Fellow at the University of Southern California. His recent book, Deep Time Reckoning, is an anthropological exploration of how Finland’s nuclear waste experts pondered distant future ecosystems and the limits of knowledge. Vincent’s research has been supported

Heather Jasper is a travel writer, photographer and blogger based in Cusco, Peru since 02019. Her articles about South America have been published in BBC Travel, Fodor’s Travel, Matador Network, World Nomads, and more. Before settling in South America as a writer, she taught French and Spanish in middle schools in the US, Turkey, and Bangladesh. You can learn more about her writing on

Laura Jayne is a writer, harm reduction advocate and communications professional, specializing in the non-profit space.  

Charlotte Jones writes about politics and cultural history. She is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London.

Leo Kim is a writer based out of New York interested in the uncanny intersections of technology, media, environment, and culture. He's previously written for Wired, Mother Jones, Artnews, Polygon, and others.  

Zeb Larson is a writer and historian based in Columbus, Ohio. Originally from Portland, Oregon, he did his PhD at Ohio State and focused on anti-apartheid organizing in the United States.

John Last is a freelance writer, journalist and producer based in the north of Italy. His work focuses on lesser-known stories at the intersections of history, politics, and culture. Before Italy, he reported from Arctic Canada, the American South, and the Middle East.

Adam M. Lowenstein is a freelance journalist who writes Reframe Your Inbox, an email newsletter of essays and interviews about corporate power, capitalism, and politics. He previously worked as a speechwriter in the U.S. Senate. He is working on his second book.

Andrew Mambondiyani is a journalist based in Zimbabwe with bylines in local, regional and international publications including BBC, MIT Technology Review, The Telegraph, Aljazeera and Vice News among others.

Grant McCracken is an anthropologist who studies American cultures. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He's the author of 14 books. The most recent is The Return of the Artisan, published in 02022 by Simon and Schuster.  

Rosalind Moran is a writer of short fiction, nonfiction, poetry, satire, and plays. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Prospect Magazine, and Electric Literature, among many others. She hails from Australia and currently lives in Cambridge, UK.

Gus Mitchell is a writer from London. His plays have been performed there and elsewhere and his writing has appeared in Prospect, Compact, The Cleveland Review of Books, Maisonneuve, Lit Hub and other places.

Athalia Norman is a writer, anthropologist, and toy store manager living in North Carolina. Fascinated by spiders, androids, and balljoint dolls–she’s fine, absolutely fine. In her spare time she studies advancements in artificial intelligence and nautical archaeology.

From a family of developers and entrepreneurs, he started writing code at 12. He has since filled many roles, but for the last 15 years he has alternated between leading the technical side of ambitious products and advising others on how to make systems and teams run well.

To learn more about him, a good place to start is his LinkedIn profile. He comments occasionally

Alice Riddell is a writer and researcher originally from the U.K. She is currently living in New York, having completed a Masters at NYU's Experimental Humanities program, where she was Editor-in-Chief of an interdisciplinary journal called Caustic Frolic. Alice’s academic background is grounded in Cultural Anthropology and she has worked in New York in mayoral political science for the last year. She is

Allegra Rosenberg is a writer and fangirl based in Brooklyn. She currently writes a weekly column for the Garbage Day newsletter on Substack and is studying at NYU's Experimental Humanities program.  

Chivas Sandage is a digital columnist at Ms. Magazine. Her column, Ms. Muse, features contemporary feminist poets and essays on the intersection of poetry, politics, and our lives. Sandage won the 02021 Claire Keyes Poetry Award and is the author of Hidden Drive, a finalist for the Foreword Book of the Year Award in poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared in the Texas Observer

Em Seely-Katz is a writer and editor focusing on fashion, contextualized within histories and traditions from the sacred to the profane. They are the News Editor of Magasin, the founder of the newsletter Human Repeller, and their writing has appeared in passerby, i-D, Mildew Magazine, and many other online and print publications.

Patrick’s works include the award-winning films Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality, The Philosopher Kings, La Source, and In Pursuit of Silence. His films have received 24 awards and 12 nominations, and have been featured on CNN, Huffington Post, N.Y. Times, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, and the Washington Post. In 02009, Patrick received the Emerging Cinematic Vision Award from Camden

Brian Sommer is a freelance writer and journalist based in New York City. Currently, he is a full-time communications professional in the entertainment industry.

Robin Sloan is a fiction writer whose novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He splits his time between the San Francisco Bay Area and the San Joaquin Valley of California.

His first novel, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, was published in 02012, and his second, Sourdough, was published in 02017. His latest novel Moonbound was published in 02024.

A'liya Spinner (she/him) is a non-binary writer and researcher, currently specializing in poison dart frogs but aiming someday for dinosaurs. In her spare time, she plays with her gecko, collects bones, and writes little tidbits for the magpie god that lives in her closet. Observe him in his natural habitat, or visit her site.

Jamie Stantonian is a user experience director, occasional writer, aspiring YouTuber, and multimedia creative who is preoccupied with our long coevolution with information technology. In articles, video essays, and art, he explores this symbiotic relationship from the Paleolithic to the Pyrocene, in an attempt to makse sense of todays still-evolving planetary sense-making systems. In 02023, he trained with the McLuhan Institute to gain a deeper

James Steck lives in Virginia and teaches high school English. His poetry has appeared with many print and online magazines and journals such as Heroin Love Songs, The Wild Word, Tiny Spoon Lit. Magazine, Oddball Magazine, Better Than Starbucks, Unlikely Stories Mark V, Beautiful Cadaver Project Pittsburgh: Recasting Masculinity, among others. He has been a writer in residence with The Inner Loop's Summer Residency and

Liam Taylor is a Ph.D. student in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at Yale University, New Haven, CT. His research focuses on the evolution of adolescent birds: why do some birds take a decade to begin breeding, even though they grow to adult size in their first year of life? The answer involves behavior, society, and sex! Liam's fieldwork includes studies of storm-petrels

Andrew Tighe is a postdoctoral researcher working in University College Dublin, Ireland and Pwani Unversity, Kenya. His work focuses on developing novel techniques for non-invasively monitoring wild elephant populations, such as using eDNA techniques.

Raphael Tsavkko Garcia is a Brazilian journalist published in major international news outlets. He holds a PhD in Human Rights from the University of Deusto.

Ramsha Zubairi is a freelance writer. She writes about food, culture and history. Her work has been published in BBC Travel, Reader’s Digest, Atlas Obscura, and other publications of note.