With thousands of members from all around the world, the Long Now community has a wide range of perspectives, stories, and experiences to offer. We're excited to showcase our annual curated set of short Ignite Talks created and given by the Long Now Members themselves. Presenting on the subjects of their choice, speakers have precisely 5 minutes to amuse, educate, enlighten, or inspire the audience.

Our speakers and their talks:

• Natasha Blum: Famous Last Words: Self-Discovery for Life, Death, and Rebirth
• Dave Elfving: My AI Co-Teacher
• Altay Guvench: Ultraviolet Exploration: Fluorescence in Nature
• Trevor Haldenby: Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Fossil?
• Andra Keay: Robotopia
• Alyssa Ravasio: Recreation for Restoration
• Jason Roberts: To State The Obvious: Addressing History's Blind Spot
• Ya'el Shatz: From Dirt to Treasure
• Sarah Cameron Sunde: Tides As Metaphor: Proposals Toward Living on Tidal Time
• Diane Tate: Oral History and Human Connection
• Natalia Vasquez: Visualizing Climate Futures
• Jason Winn: Stories as Ancient Maps: A Tale Told for Ten Thousand Five Hundred Years
• Connie Yang: Nonagenarians Doing Shit