For almost two decades, Long Now has produced hundreds of talks from the world’s leading long-term thinkers, and it’s all possible because of the support of our members and donors. Now, we are showcasing a curated set of short Ignite Talks created and given by the Long Now Members themselves.

With thousands of members from all around the world, from artists and writers to engineers and farmers, our community has a wide range of perspectives, stories, and experience to offer. What's an Ignite talk? It's a story format created by Brady Forrest and Bre Pettis that's exactly 5 minutes long, told by a speaker who's working with 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds (ready or not).

These Ignite talks range from geeky, fanciful, poignant, educational, with some fresh angles on long-term thinking. The talks were streamed live on Long Now's YouTube and Facebook channels.

Our Ignite Speakers and Their Talks:
• Catherine Chalmers : Collaborating with Insects
• Allison Cooper : Activism as Futurism: Imagining Better Worlds
• Danese Cooper : Change Agents (and How to Become One)
• Jason Crawford : Instant stone (just add water!)
• Stewart Dickson :Plastic Mathematics in the Clock
• Michael Garfield : Deepfakes & The Archaic Revival
• Quentin Hardy : The Great Dead End
• Asmara Marek : The Future of Storytelling
• Louis Metzger : Our future drugs will come from the oceans; Can we save them in time?
• Marc Pomerleau : Leways: The Story of a Chinatown Pool Hall
• Patricia Ravasio : Lost Visions of the Leonardo da Vinci of the 20th Century
• Madeline Sunley : Art and Time: Axial Precession, archaeoastronomy, and marking a desert nuclear waste site for the next ten millennia
• Scott Thrift : A Longer Now