Talks

Meenakshi Wadhwa

Apr 13, 02027

Silvana Konermann

Mar 16, 02027

Mariana Mazzucato

Feb 9, 02027

Dakota Gruener

Jan 26, 02027

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes 02026

Dec 1, 02026

Baratunde Thurston & Blaise Agüera y Arcas

On Interdependence

Oct 22, 02026

Anne Heggli, Jonathon Keats, & Adam Csank

Art & Science at the Nevada Bristlecone Preserve

Sep 29, 02026

Bayo Akomolafe

The Untimely

May 5, 02026

Claire Isabel Webb & Nina Miolane

The Geometry of Consciousness

Apr 20, 02026

Eric Ries

Incorruptible by Design

Apr 7, 02026

Melody Jue

Ocean Memory

Mar 18, 02026

Stefan Sagmeister

Finally, something good.

Feb 17, 02026

Indy Johar

Civilizational Optioneering

Jan 27, 02026

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes 02025: YEAR 20!

Dec 3, 02025

Kate Crawford

Mapping Empires

Nov 12, 02025

Lynn Rothschild

Nature’s Hardware Store

Oct 14, 02025

Blaise Agüera y Arcas

What is Intelligence?

Sep 16, 02025

Kim Carson

Inspired by Intelligence

Apr 22, 02025

Sara Imari Walker

An Informational Theory of Life

Apr 1, 02025

Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson

Abundance

Mar 27, 02025

Kim Stanley Robinson & Stephen Heintz

A Logic For The Future

Mar 19, 02025

K Allado-McDowell

On Neural Media

Feb 25, 02025

Ahmed Best

Feel The Future

Feb 14, 02025

Benjamin Bratton

A Philosophy of Planetary Computation

Jan 29, 02025

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes 02024

Dec 9, 02024

Roman Krznaric & Kate Raworth

What Doughnut Economics Can Learn From History

Nov 22, 02024

Neal Stephenson

Polostan

Oct 16, 02024

Members of Long Now

Ignite Talks 02024

May 29, 02024

Alicia Escott & Heidi Quante

The Bureau of Linguistical Reality Performance Lecture

Mar 12, 02024

Jonathan Cordero

Indigenous Sovereign Futures

Feb 6, 02024

Denise Hearn

Embodied Economies

Jan 23, 02024

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes 02023

Dec 4, 02023

Jared Farmer

Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees

Nov 14, 02023

Abby Smith Rumsey

Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures

Oct 10, 02023

Henry Farrell

The Complex Aftermath of Globalization

Sep 26, 02023

Coco Krumme

The False Promise of Optimization

Sep 12, 02023

Chelsea T. Hicks & Bette Adriaanse

Radical Sharing

Aug 22, 02023

Long Now Members

Ignite Talks 02023

Jul 11, 02023

Anthropocene Magazine

The Climate Parables: Reporting from the Future

May 12, 02023

Becky Chambers & Annalee Newitz

Resisting Dystopia

Apr 18, 02023

Ryan Phelan

Bringing Biotech to Wildlife Conservation

Apr 4, 02023

Jenny Odell

Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

Mar 7, 02023

Ismail Ali

Psychedelics: History at the Crossroads

Feb 14, 02023

Ryan North

How to Invent Everything

Jan 31, 02023

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes 02022 Bay and Gateway

Dec 13, 02022

Alicia Eggert

This Moment Used To Be The Future

Nov 3, 02022

Johanna Hoffman

Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need

Oct 12, 02022

Jonathan Haidt, Kevin Kelly, & Stewart Brand

Democracy in the Next Cycle of History

Sep 27, 02022

Michael Tubbs

Upsetting the Setup: Creating a California for All

Jul 20, 02022

Edward Slingerland

Drinking for 10,000 Years: Intoxication and Civilization

Jun 14, 02022

Long Now Members

Ignite Talks 02022

May 25, 02022

Creon Levit

Space Debris and The Kessler Syndrome

Apr 26, 02022

Dorie Clark

The Long Game: How to be a long-term thinker in a short-term world

Apr 4, 02022

John Markoff & Stewart Brand

Floating Upstream: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

Mar 22, 02022

Kim Stanley Robinson

Climate Futures: Beyond 02022

Mar 2, 02022

Neri Oxman

Nature x Humanity

Feb 16, 02022

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes 02021

Dec 1, 02021

Neal Stephenson

Termination Shock

Nov 17, 02021

Parag Khanna

Why Mobility is Destiny

Nov 9, 02021

David Rooney

A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks

Sep 9, 02021

Geoff Manaugh & Nicola Twilley

Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine

Aug 17, 02021

Kate Darling

The New Breed

Aug 10, 02021

Prerna Singh

State, Society and Vaccines

Jul 27, 02021

Eric Debrah Otchere

Sonic Spaces

Jul 12, 02021

Wade Davis

Activist Anthropology

Jun 29, 02021

Suzanne Simard

Mother Trees and the Social Forest

Jun 15, 02021

Adam Rogers

Full Spectrum: The Science of Color and Modern Human Perception

May 18, 02021

Sean Carroll

The Passage of Time and the Meaning of Life

May 4, 02021

Alexander Rose

Continuity: Discovering the Lessons behind the World’s Longest-lived Organizations

Apr 19, 02021

Nathaniel Rich, Ben Novak, & Ryan Phelan

Second Nature: Green Rabbits, Passenger Pigeons, Cloned Ferrets, and the Birth of a New Ecology

Apr 7, 02021

Peter Leyden

The Transformation: A Future History of the World from 02020 to 02050

Feb 9, 02021

Jason Tester

Queering the Future: How LGBTQ Foresight Can Benefit All

Jan 26, 02021

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 15

Dec 16, 02020

James Nestor

The Future of Breathing

Dec 8, 02020

Nadia Asparouhova

The Making and Maintenance of our Open Source Infrastructure

Nov 17, 02020

Roman Krznaric

Becoming a Better Ancestor

Oct 28, 02020

Long Now Members

Ignite Talks 02020

Oct 20, 02020

Julia Watson

Design by Radical Indigenism

Sep 15, 02020

Genevieve Bell

The 4th Industrial Revolution: Responsible & Secure AI

Aug 12, 02020

Craig Childs

Tracking the First People into Ice Age North America

Aug 4, 02020

Peter Calthorpe

Urban Planet

Jul 14, 02020

Lonny J Avi Brooks

When is Wakanda: Imagining Afrofutures

Jul 7, 02020

Brian Fisher

Edible Insects

Jun 9, 02020

Frank Ostaseski

What the Dying Teach the Living: Death During a Pandemic

May 28, 02020

Rick Doblin

Transformational Psychedelics

May 13, 02020

Laurance Doyle

Interspecies Communication and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Apr 29, 02020

Jane Metcalfe

The Neobiological Revolution

Apr 16, 02020

Long Now Board & Friends

Long Conversation 02020

Apr 14, 02020

Eric Ries

Long-Term Stock Exchange

Feb 24, 02020

Robert McIntyre

Engram Preservation: Early Work Towards Mind Uploading

Feb 11, 02020

Tiffany Shlain

24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week

Jan 21, 02020

Bina Venkataraman

Long-Term Thinking in a Distracted World

Jan 15, 02020

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 14

Dec 10, 02019

Andrew McAfee

More From Less

Nov 18, 02019

Adrienne Mayor

Gods and Robots: Ancient Dreams of Technology

Nov 12, 02019

Annalee Newitz

We're in the Wrong Timeline

Nov 5, 02019

Suhanya Raffel

World Art Through The Asian Perspective

Oct 14, 02019

Jacob Ward

The Loop: Decision Technology and How to Resist It

Oct 8, 02019

Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, & Nicholas de Pencier

Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

Sep 29, 02019

Lewis Dartnell

ORIGINS - How Earth’s history shaped human history

Sep 10, 02019

Brittany Cox

Horological Heritage: Generating bird song, magic, and music through mechanism

Aug 20, 02019

Monica L. Smith

Cities: The First 6,000 Years

Aug 13, 02019

Gurjeet Singh

The Shape Of Data And Things To Come

Aug 6, 02019

Marcia Bjornerud

Timefulness

Jul 22, 02019

Mariana Mazzucato

Rethinking Value

Jun 24, 02019

Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson - Fall, or Dodge in Hell

Jun 6, 02019

David Byrne

Good News & Sleeping Beauties

Jun 4, 02019

Ian McEwan

Machines Like Me

May 4, 02019

Elizabeth Lonsdorf

Growing Up Ape: The Long-term Science of Studying Our Closest Living Relatives

Apr 30, 02019

Maya Tudor

Can Nationalism be a Resource for Democracy?

Apr 16, 02019

Jeff Goodell

The Water Will Come

Apr 2, 02019

Ed Lu

Charting the High Frontier of Space

Mar 19, 02019

Chip Conley

The Modern Elder and the Intergenerational Workplace

Mar 13, 02019

Christopher Bryan

The Evolving Science of Behavior Change

Feb 19, 02019

James Holland Jones

The Science of Climate Fiction: Can Stories Lead to Social Action?

Jan 29, 02019

Alexander Rose, Kevin Kelly, & Stewart Brand

Siberia: A Journey to the Mammoth Steppe

Jan 22, 02019

Martin Rees

Prospects for Humanity

Jan 14, 02019

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 13

Dec 4, 02018

Niall Ferguson

Networks and Power

Nov 19, 02018

Kim Stanley Robinson

Learning From Le Guin

Nov 13, 02018

Mary Lou Jepsen

Toward Practical Telepathy

Oct 29, 02018

Bruce Sterling

How to Be Futuristic

Oct 16, 02018

Stewart Brand

Whole Earth Catalog 50th Anniversary Celebration

Oct 13, 02018

Fred Lyon

San Francisco Time: The Photography of Fred Lyon

Oct 2, 02018

Nicola Twilley

Exploring the Artificial Cryosphere

Sep 18, 02018

Julia Galef

Soldiers and Scouts: Why our minds weren't built for truth, and how we can change that

Sep 12, 02018

Caroline Winterer

The Art and Science of Deep Time: Conceiving the Inconceivable in the 19th Century

Sep 4, 02018

Kelly Wanser

Is Reflecting Sunlight from the Atmosphere a Bridge to the Future?

Aug 14, 02018

Juan Benet

Long Term Info-structure

Aug 6, 02018

Brian Behlendorf

A Foundation of Trust: Building a Blockchain Future

Jul 31, 02018

Esther Dyson

The Short Now: What Addiction, Day Trading, and Most of Society’s Ills Have in Common

Jul 17, 02018

George P. Shultz

Perspective

Jul 16, 02018

Hannu Rajaniemi

The Spirit Singularity: Science and the Afterlife at the Turn of the 20th Century

Jul 10, 02018

Shahzeen Attari

Facts, Feelings and Stories: How to Motivate Action on Climate Change

Jun 26, 02018

Chris D. Thomas

Are We Initiating The Great Anthropocene Speciation Event?

Jun 19, 02018

Benjamin Grant

Overview: Earth and Civilization in the Macroscope

May 22, 02018

Sarah Ogilvie

Words from the Crowd

May 15, 02018

Annalee Newitz

Science Needs Fiction

May 8, 02018

Kishore Mahbubani

Has the West Lost It? Can Asia Save It?

Apr 23, 02018

Jennifer Granick

Modern Surveillance: Why You Should Care and What You Can Do

Apr 17, 02018

Renée DiResta

Disinformation Technology: How Online Propaganda Campaigns Are Influencing Us

Apr 10, 02018

Judy Wajcman

Time Poverty Amidst Digital Abundance

Mar 27, 02018

Steven Pinker

A New Enlightenment

Mar 13, 02018

Christopher Michel

Terra Incognita: Exploring the Earth's Most Remote Places

Mar 6, 02018

Michael Frachetti

Open Source Civilization and the Unexpected Origins of the Silk Road

Feb 26, 02018

Megan Palmer

Engineering Biology for Social Scales

Feb 6, 02018

Tenzin Priyadarshi

Ethics as Optimization

Jan 30, 02018

Charles C. Mann

The Wizard and the Prophet

Jan 22, 02018

Franck Marchis

Another Pale Blue Dot: Inside SETI Institute’s Search for Exoplanets

Jan 16, 02018

Tim O'Reilly

What’s The Future? It’s Up to Us.

Jan 9, 02018

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 12

Dec 12, 02017

Nathaniel Persily

Can Democracy Survive the Internet?

Nov 28, 02017

Elena Bennett

Seeds of a Good Anthropocene

Nov 20, 02017

Janos Veres

An Additive Electronics Revolution

Nov 14, 02017

Renee Wegrzyn

Engineering Gene Safety

Oct 30, 02017

Rob Reid

After On: Emergent Fiction from the Technology of our Moment

Oct 24, 02017

Dan Gillmor

Journalism in an Age of Misinformation and Centralization

Oct 17, 02017

Greg Leyh

The Secret Life of Lightning: The Science of Giant Tesla Coils

Sep 26, 02017

Margaret Levi

The Organized Pursuit of Knowledge

Sep 19, 02017

David Grinspoon

Earth in Human Hands

Sep 6, 02017

Scott Kildall

Art Thinking + Technology: A Personal Journey of Expanding Space and Time

Aug 15, 02017

Nicky Case

Seeing Whole Systems

Aug 7, 02017

Carolyn Porco

Searching for Life in the Solar System

Jul 24, 02017

Michael Mikel

The Five Ages of Burning Man

Jul 11, 02017

Miles Traer

The Geological Reveal: How the Rock Record Shows Our Relationship to the Natural World

Jun 27, 02017

Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

Jun 14, 02017

James Gleick

Time Travel

Jun 5, 02017

Andrew Lakoff

How We Became “Unprepared”: Imagining Catastrophe from the Cold War to Bird Flu

May 30, 02017

Geoffrey B West

The Universal Laws of Growth and Pace

May 23, 02017

Scurvy Salon

The History & Science of a Persistent Malady

May 16, 02017

Kim Stanley Robinson

Adapting to Sea Level Rise: The Science of <em>New York 2140</em>

May 9, 02017

Jennifer Petersen

Why Freedom of Speech Is More Than Speech: Expressions in Media and Code

Apr 18, 02017

Frank Ostaseski

What the Dying Teach the Living

Apr 10, 02017

Adam Steltzner

What Curiosity Can Mean for the Future

Apr 4, 02017

David Lang

Citizen Science: How It Works, Why It's Important, and Where It Might Take Us

Mar 21, 02017

Bjorn Lomborg

From Feel-Good to High-Yield Good: How to Improve Philanthropy and Aid

Mar 13, 02017

Eric Klinenberg

Climate Change and the Future of Cities

Mar 7, 02017

Tara Behrend

The Psychology of Surveillance: How Being Watched Changes Our Behavior

Feb 28, 02017

Larry Brilliant

Sometimes Brilliant: in Conversation with Stewart Brand

Feb 21, 02017

Geoff Manaugh

Breaking the Close: Burglary and the Limits of Architecture

Feb 14, 02017

Jennifer Pahlka

Fixing Government: Bottom Up and Outside In

Feb 1, 02017

James Holland Jones

Rationality Redeemed: An Evolutionary Perspective on Behavioral Economics

Jan 17, 02017

Steven Johnson

Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World

Jan 4, 02017

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 11

Dec 6, 02016

Fred Turner

Technology & Counterculture from World War II to Today

Nov 15, 02016

Douglas Coupland

The Extreme Present

Nov 1, 02016

David Eagleman

The Brain and The Now

Oct 4, 02016

Ben Novak

The Next Flight of the Passenger Pigeon

Sep 27, 02016

Jonathan Rose

The Well Tempered City

Sep 20, 02016

Samuel Arbesman

Technology at the Limits of Comprehension

Aug 23, 02016

Seth Lloyd

Quantum Computer Reality

Aug 9, 02016

Rose McDermott

Ideology in our Genes: The Biological Basis for Political Traits

Jul 19, 02016

Kevin Kelly

The Next 30 Digital Years

Jul 14, 02016

Andrew Chignell

A Case for Hope in the Anthropocene

Jun 28, 02016

Brian Christian

Algorithms to Live By

Jun 20, 02016

Kevin Kelly

The Inevitable

Jun 7, 02016

John Seely Brown & Ann Pendleton-Jullian

The Pragmatic Imagination

May 31, 02016

Mike Kuniavsky

Our Future in Algorithm Farming

May 17, 02016

Kim Stanley Robinson

How Climate Will Evolve Government and Society

May 10, 02016

Walter Mischel

The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control

May 2, 02016

Edward Slingerland

Creativity, Trust and the Paradox of Spontaneity

Apr 26, 02016

Priyamvada Natarajan

Solving Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Apr 11, 02016

William Fox

Into the Anthroposcenic

Apr 5, 02016

Abby Smith Rumsey

How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future

Mar 29, 02016

Isabella Kirkland

Painting the Endangered World

Mar 22, 02016

Jane Langdale

Radical Ag: C4 Rice and Beyond

Mar 14, 02016

Kara Platoni

Transforming Perception, One Sense at a Time

Mar 1, 02016

The Refugee Reality

Thinking Long-term About the Evolving Global Challenge

Feb 23, 02016

Odd Salon

Heroic Antarctic

Feb 16, 02016

Stephen Pyne

Fire Slow, Fire Fast, Fire Deep

Feb 9, 02016

John Thackara

Redefining Growth

Feb 2, 02016

Louis Hyman

The New Deal You Don't Know

Jan 26, 02016

Kirk Citron

The Long News

Jan 19, 02016

Eric Cline

1177 B.C.: When Civilization Collapsed

Jan 11, 02016

Stefan Kröpelin

From Deep Space into the Deep Sahara

Dec 14, 02015

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 10

Dec 9, 02015

Philip Tetlock

Superforecasting

Nov 23, 02015

David Eagleman

The Future of the Human Brain

Nov 18, 02015

Howard Morphy & Frances Morphy

In the Footsteps of the Ancestors: The Dreamtime in the Politics of the Present

Nov 3, 02015

Andy Weir

The Red Planet for Real

Oct 27, 02015

Paul Clarke

The Cocktail Crystal Ball

Oct 20, 02015

James Fallows

Civilization's Infrastructure

Oct 6, 02015

John Markoff

The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots

Sep 29, 02015

Saul Griffith

Infrastructure and Climate Change

Sep 21, 02015

David Rumsey

Rumsey Map Collection preview event

Aug 25, 02015

Lance Winters, Dave Smith, & Shanna Farrell

Three Generations of St George Spirits

Aug 18, 02015

Sara Seager

Other Earths. Other Life.

Aug 10, 02015

Michael Shellenberger & Stewart Brand

Is Ecomodernism the Future of Environmentalism?

Aug 4, 02015

Hugh Howey

The Library That Lasts

Jul 28, 02015

Ramez Naam

Enhancing Humans, Advancing Humanity

Jul 22, 02015

Maryanne Wolf

The Changing Reading Brain in a Digital Culture

Jul 14, 02015

Valentina Bosetti

Conceptualizing the Risk and Uncertainty of Climate Change

Jun 23, 02015

Rick Prelinger

Bay Area Telecommunications Infrastructure History

Jun 16, 02015

Neil Gaiman

How Stories Last

Jun 9, 02015

James Austin

21st Century Iron Age

Jun 2, 02015

Neal Stephenson

Seveneves at The Interval

May 21, 02015

Beth Shapiro

How to Clone a Mammoth

May 11, 02015

D. Fox Harrell

Coding Ourselves/Coding Others

May 5, 02015

Patrick House

Modern Brain Parasites as Clues to Ancient Illness

Apr 21, 02015

Michael Shermer

The Long Arc of Moral Progress

Apr 14, 02015

Jonathon Keats

Envisioning Deep Time

Apr 7, 02015

Paul Saffo

The Creator Economy

Mar 31, 02015

Lewis Dartnell

The Knowledge, Rebuilding Our World from Scratch

Mar 24, 02015

Richard Rhodes

Hell and Good Company, the Spanish Civil War

Mar 10, 02015

Jason Scott

The Web In An Eye Blink

Feb 24, 02015

David Keith

Patient Geoengineering

Feb 17, 02015

Jeffrey McGrew

Talking with Robots about Architecture

Feb 10, 02015

Paul Saffo & Stewart Brand

Pace Layers Thinking

Jan 27, 02015

Mathieu Victor

Artists with Lasers. Art, Tech, & Craft in the 21st Century

Jan 20, 02015

Jesse Ausubel

Nature is Rebounding

Jan 13, 02015

Scotty Strachan

The Great Basin in the Anthropocene

Jan 6, 02015

Jürg Lehni

Chalk Drawing Robot Unveiling

Dec 8, 02014

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 9

Dec 4, 02014

Kevin Kelly

A Cool Tools Book Event

Nov 25, 02014

Erik Davis

Philip K. Dick's Philosophical Machines

Nov 18, 02014

Kevin Kelly

Technium Unbound

Nov 12, 02014

Steven Bird

Preserving Unwritten Languages

Nov 10, 02014

Karen Marcelo

Renegade Technology in the Bay Area

Nov 4, 02014

Alexander Rose

Designing for Longevity

Oct 28, 02014

Larry Harvey

Why The Man Keeps Burning

Oct 20, 02014

Gareth Branwyn

Reading from "Borg Like Me"

Oct 19, 02014

Jordan Shlain, Kimberly Brooks, & Tiffany Shlain

Leonardo's Brain Book Launch

Oct 12, 02014

James Nestor

Humanity and the Deep Ocean

Oct 7, 02014

Ariel Waldman

The Future of Human Spaceflight

Sep 30, 02014

Mathew Burrows

The Future Declassified

Sep 23, 02014

Drew Endy

The iGEM Revolution

Sep 16, 02014

Peter Schwartz

The Future of the Internet

Aug 18, 02014

Jon Mooallem & Laurel Braitman

Go Animals

Aug 12, 02014

Anne Neuberger

Inside the NSA

Aug 6, 02014

Adrian Hon

A History of the Future in 100 Objects

Jul 16, 02014

Mandana Seyfeddinipur, David Evan Harris, & Laura Welcher

On the Future of Language

Jul 8, 02014

Dan Novy

Science Fiction to Science Fabrication

Jul 1, 02014

Daniel Cordaro

Emotion & Fundamental Contentment

Jun 24, 02014

Violet Blue

Long-term Sustainable Privacy Models

Jun 17, 02014

Rachel Sussman

The Oldest Living Things in the World

Jun 13, 02014

Stefan Kröpelin

Civilization’s Mysterious Desert Cradle

Jun 10, 02014

Adam Rogers

Proof: The Science of Booze

May 27, 02014

Sylvia Earle & Tierney Thys

Oceanic

May 20, 02014

Tony Hsieh

Helping Revitalize a City

Apr 22, 02014

Mariana Mazzucato

The Entrepreneurial State

Mar 24, 02014

Matthew Bogdanos

The Unlooting of Civilization’s Treasures in Wartime Iraq

Feb 24, 02014

Danny Hillis & Brian Eno

The Long Now, now

Jan 21, 02014

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 8

Dec 17, 02013

Richard Kurin

American History in 101 Objects

Nov 18, 02013

Adam Steltzner

Beyond Mars, Earth

Oct 15, 02013

Peter Schwartz

The Starships ARE Coming

Sep 17, 02013

Daniel Kahneman

Thinking Fast and Slow

Aug 13, 02013

Craig Childs

Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth

Jul 29, 02013

Ed Lu

Anthropocene Astronomy: Thwarting Dangerous Asteroids Begins with Finding Them

Jun 18, 02013

Stewart Brand

Reviving Extinct Species

May 21, 02013

Nicholas Negroponte

Beyond Digital

Apr 17, 02013

George Dyson

No Time Is There

Mar 19, 02013

Chris Anderson

The Makers Revolution

Feb 19, 02013

Terry Hunt & Carl Lipo

The Statues Walked -- What Really Happened on Easter Island

Jan 17, 02013

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 7

Dec 11, 02012

Peter Warshall

Enchanted by the Sun

Nov 28, 02012

Lazar Kunstmann & Jon Lackman

Preservation without Permission

Nov 13, 02012

Steven Pinker

The Decline of Violence

Oct 8, 02012

Tim O'Reilly

Birth of the Global Mind

Sep 5, 02012

Elaine Pagels

The Truth About the Book of Revelations

Aug 20, 02012

Cory Doctorow

The Coming Century of War Against Your Computer

Jul 31, 02012

Benjamin Barber

If Mayors Ruled the World

Jun 5, 02012

Susan Freinkel

Eternal Plastic

May 22, 02012

Charles C. Mann

Living in the Homogenocene

Apr 23, 02012

Edward O. Wilson

The Social Conquest of Earth

Apr 20, 02012

Mark Lynas

The Nine Planetary Boundaries

Mar 6, 02012

Jim Richardson

Heirlooms

Feb 22, 02012

Lawrence Lessig

How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It

Jan 17, 02012

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 6

Dec 8, 02011

Brewster Kahle

Universal Access to All Knowledge

Nov 30, 02011

Laura Cunningham

Ten Millennia of California Ecology

Oct 17, 02011

Timothy Ferriss

Accelerated Learning in Accelerated Times

Sep 14, 02011

Geoffrey B West

Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster

Jul 25, 02011

Peter Kareiva

Conservation in the Real World

Jun 27, 02011

Carl Zimmer

Viral Time

Jun 7, 02011

Tim Flannery

Here on Earth

May 3, 02011

Ian Morris

Why the West Rules - For Now

Apr 13, 02011

Alexander Rose

Millennial Precedent

Apr 5, 02011

Matt Ridley

Deep Optimism

Mar 22, 02011

Mary Catherine Bateson

Live Longer, Think Longer

Feb 9, 02011

Philip K. Howard

Fixing Broken Government

Jan 18, 02011

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 5

Dec 16, 02010

Rachel Sussman

The World's Oldest Living Organisms

Nov 15, 02010

Lera Boroditsky

How Language Shapes Thought

Oct 26, 02010

Jane McGonigal & Stewart Brand

Long Conversation 19 of 19

Oct 16, 02010

Jane McGonigal & Tiffany Shlain

Long Conversation 18 of 19

Oct 16, 02010

Paul Hawken & Tiffany Shlain

Long Conversation 17 of 19

Oct 16, 02010

Paul Hawken & Katherine Fulton

Long Conversation 16 of 19

Oct 16, 02010

Katherine Fulton & Stuart Candy

Long Conversation 15 of 19

Oct 16, 02010

Danese Cooper & Stuart Candy

Long Conversation 14 of 19

Oct 16, 02010

Danese Cooper & Peter Schwartz

Long Conversation 13 of 19

Oct 16, 02010

Pete Worden & Peter Schwartz

Long Conversation 12 of 19

Oct 16, 02010

Ken Foster & Pete Worden

Long Conversation 11 of 19

Oct 16, 02010

Melissa Alexander & Ken Foster

Long Conversation 10 of 19

Oct 16, 02010

Melissa Alexander & Ken Wilson

Long Conversation 9 of 19

Oct 16, 02010

John Perry Barlow & Ken Wilson

Long Conversation 8 of 19

Oct 16, 02010

John Perry Barlow & Violet Blue

Long Conversation 7 of 19

Oct 16, 02010

Violet Blue & Robin Sloan

Long Conversation 6 of 19

Oct 16, 02010

Jill Tarter & Robin Sloan

Long Conversation 5 of 19

Oct 16, 02010

Emily Levine & Jill Tarter

Long Conversation 4 of 19

Oct 16, 02010

Saul Griffith & Emily Levine

Long Conversation 3 of 19

Oct 16, 02010

Jem Finer & Saul Griffith

Long Conversation 2 of 19

Oct 16, 02010

Jem Finer & Stewart Brand

Long Conversation 1 of 19

Oct 16, 02010

Long Now Board & Friends

Long Conversation 02010

Oct 16, 02010

Richard Rhodes

Twilight of the Bombs

Sep 21, 02010

Martin Rees

Life's Future in the Cosmos

Aug 2, 02010

Jesse Schell

Visions of the Gamepocalypse

Jul 27, 02010

Frank Gavin

Five Ways to Use History Well

Jul 12, 02010

Ed Moses

Clean Fusion Power This Decade

Jun 16, 02010

Nils Gilman

Deviant Globalization

May 3, 02010

David Eagleman

Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization

Apr 1, 02010

Beth Noveck

Transparent Government

Mar 4, 02010

Alan Weisman

World Without Us, World With Us

Feb 24, 02010

Alexander Rose, Brian Eno, & Stewart Brand

Long Finance: The Enduring Value Conference

Feb 1, 02010

Wade Davis

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

Jan 13, 02010

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4

Dec 4, 02009

Sander van der Leeuw

The Archaeology of Innovation

Nov 18, 02009

Stewart Brand

Rethinking Green

Oct 9, 02009

Arthur Ganson

Machines and the Breath of Time

Sep 14, 02009

Wayne Clough

Smithsonian Forever

Aug 17, 02009

Raoul Adamchak & Pamela Ronald

Organically Grown and Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future

Jul 28, 02009

Paul Romer

A Theory of History, with an Application

May 18, 02009

Michael Pollan

Deep Agriculture

May 5, 02009

Gavin Newsom & Stewart Brand

Cities and Time

Apr 8, 02009

Daniel Everett

Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future

Mar 20, 02009

Dmitry Orlov

Social Collapse Best Practices

Feb 13, 02009

Saul Griffith

Climate Change Recalculated

Jan 16, 02009

Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco

Dec 19, 02008

Drew Endy & Jim Thomas

Synthetic Biology Debate

Nov 17, 02008

Huey Johnson

Green Planning at Nation Scale

Oct 3, 02008

Peter Diamandis

Long-term X-Prizes

Sep 12, 02008

Neal Stephenson

ANATHEM Book Launch Event

Sep 9, 02008

Daniel Suarez

Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality

Aug 8, 02008

Edward Burtynsky

The 10,000-year Gallery

Jul 23, 02008

Paul Ehrlich

The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment

Jun 27, 02008

Iqbal Quadir

Technology Empowers the Poorest

May 21, 02008

Niall Ferguson & Peter Schwartz

Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress

Apr 28, 02008

Craig Venter

Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention

Feb 25, 02008

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought

Feb 4, 02008

Paul Saffo

Embracing Uncertainty: the secret to effective forecasting

Jan 11, 02008

Joline Blais & Jon Ippolito

At the Edge of Art

Dec 14, 02007

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Enduring Principles for Changing Times

Nov 9, 02007

Juan Enriquez

Mapping the Frontier of Knowledge

Oct 12, 02007

Rip Anderson & Gwyneth Cravens

Power to Save the World

Sep 14, 02007

Alex Wright

Glut: Mastering Information Though the Ages

Aug 17, 02007

Francis Fukuyama

'The End of History' Revisited

Jun 28, 02007

Paul Hawken

The New Great Transformation

Jun 8, 02007

Steven Johnson

The Long Zoom

May 11, 02007

Frans Lanting

Life's Journey Through Time

Apr 27, 02007

Brian Fagan

We Are Not the First to Suffer Through Climate Change

Mar 9, 02007

Vernor Vinge

What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen?

Feb 15, 02007

Philip Tetlock

Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs

Jan 26, 02007

Philip Rosedale

'Second Life:' What Do We Learn If We Digitize EVERYTHING?

Nov 30, 02006

Larry Brilliant, Richard Rockefeller, & Katherine Fulton

The Deeper News About the New Philanthropy

Nov 3, 02006

John Baez

Zooming Out in Time

Oct 13, 02006

Orville Schell

China Thinks Long-term, But Can It Relearn to Act Long-term?

Sep 22, 02006

John Rendon

Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short

Jul 14, 02006

Will Wright & Brian Eno

Playing with Time

Jun 26, 02006

Will Hearst & Chris Anderson

The Long Time Tail

May 12, 02006

Jimmy Wales

Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture

Apr 14, 02006

Kevin Kelly

The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method.

Mar 10, 02006

Stephen Lansing

Perfect Order: A Thousand Years in Bali

Feb 13, 02006

Ralph Cavanagh & Peter Schwartz

Nuclear Power, Climate Change and the Next 10,000 Years

Jan 13, 02006

Sam Harris

The View from the End of the World

Dec 9, 02005

Clay Shirky

Making Digital Durable: What Time Does to Categories

Nov 14, 02005

George Dyson, Freeman Dyson, & Esther Dyson

The Difficulty of Looking Far Ahead

Oct 5, 02005

Ray Kurzweil

Kurzweil's Law

Sep 23, 02005

Robert Fuller

Patient Revolution: Human Rights Past and Future

Aug 12, 02005

Jared Diamond

How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed

Jul 15, 02005

Robert Neuwirth

The 21st Century Medieval City

Jun 10, 02005

Will Jarvis

Time Capsule Behavior

May 13, 02005

Cities & Time

Apr 8, 02005

Spencer Beebe

Very Long-term Very Large-scale Biomimicry

Mar 11, 02005

Roger Kennedy

The Political History of North America from 25,000 BC to 12,000 AD

Feb 25, 02005

James Carse

Religious War In Light of the Infinite Game

Jan 14, 02005

Ken Dychtwald

The Consequences of Human Life Extension

Dec 3, 02004

Michael West

The Prospects of Human Life Extension

Nov 12, 02004

Paul Hawken

The Long Green

Oct 15, 02004

Danny Hillis

Progress on the 10,000-year Clock

Sep 10, 02004

Phillip Longman

The Depopulation Problem

Aug 13, 02004

Jill Tarter

The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence: Necessarily a Long-term Strategy

Jul 9, 02004

Bruce Sterling

The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole

Jun 11, 02004

David Rumsey

Mapping Time

May 14, 02004

Daniel Janzen

Third World Conservation: It's ALL Gardening

Apr 9, 02004

Rusty Schweickart

The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years

Mar 12, 02004

James Dewar

Long-term Policy Analysis

Feb 13, 02004

George Dyson

There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing

Jan 9, 02004

Peter Schwartz

The Art Of The Really Long View

Dec 12, 02003

Brian Eno

The Long Now

Nov 14, 02003