Summaries of Long Now Seminars Videos 📚

Long Conversation 8 of 19 | John Perry Barlow and Ken Wilson

A Protopian Frontier | Jenny Johnston

Solving Dark Matter and Dark Energy | Priyamvada Natarajan

Deep Agriculture | Michael Pollan

Why the West Rules - For Now | Ian Morris

The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control | Walter Mischel

Networks and Power | Niall Ferguson

Power to Save the World | Rip Anderson and Gwyneth Cravens

Long-Term Stock Exchange | Eric Ries

Seeing Whole Systems | Nicky Case

Civilization's Infrastructure | James Fallows

We Are Not the First to Suffer Through Climate Change | Brian Fagan

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 10 | Rick Prelinger

How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It | Lawrence Lessig

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 13 | Rick Prelinger

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 8 | Rick Prelinger

American History in 101 Objects | Richard Kurin

The iGEM Revolution | Drew Endy

Becoming a Better Ancestor | Roman Krznaric

More From Less | Andrew McAfee

Enhancing Humans, Advancing Humanity | Ramez Naam

Democracy in the Next Cycle of History | Jonathan Haidt

Five Ways to Use History Well | Frank Gavin

Expanding Life & Consciousness in the Universe | Ben Haldeman

Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization | David Eagleman

Long Conversation 15 of 19 | Stuart Candy and Katherine Fulton

The Making and Maintenance of our Open Source Infrastructure | Nadia Eghbal

Green Planning at Nation Scale | Huey Johnson

Perspective | George P. Shultz

Has the West Lost It? Can Asia Save It? | Kishore Mahbubani

Engineering Gene Safety | Renee Wegrzyn

The Complex Aftermath of Globalization | Henry Farrell

Upsetting the Setup: Creating a California for All | Michael Tubbs

Unlocking Innovation Together: The Power of Public-Private Partnerships | Elle Miller

Mapping the Frontier of Knowledge | Juan Enriquez

World Without Us, World With Us | Alan Weisman

Dodging the Apocalypse | Climate Fiction Storytellers

Long Conversation 2 of 19 | Jem Finer and Saul Griffith

At the Edge of Art | Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito

Mother Trees and the Social Forest | Suzanne Simard

Twilight of the Bombs | Richard Rhodes

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 11 | Rick Prelinger

The Next 30 Digital Years | Kevin Kelly

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 4 | Rick Prelinger

Long Conversation 13 of 19 | Danese Cooper and Peter Schwartz

The Long Zoom | Steven Johnson

The Future of Breathing | James Nestor

Long Conversation 14 of 19 | Stuart Candy and Danese Cooper

Why The Man Keeps Burning | Larry Harvey

The Makers Revolution | Chris Anderson

Denise Hearn | Embodied Economies: How our Economic Stories Shape the World

Beyond Mars, Earth | Adam Steltzner

The Coming Century of War Against Your Computer | Cory Doctorow

Personification of Trees | Jared Farmer

Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention | Craig Venter

The Age of Programming Life | Andrew Hessel

Quantum Computer Reality | Seth Lloyd

Timefulness | Marcia Bjornerud

Anthropocene Astronomy: Thwarting Dangerous Asteroids Begins with Finding Them | Ed Lu

Whole Earth 50th Anniversary Celebration

If Mayors Ruled the World | Benjamin Barber

Soldiers and Scouts: Why our minds weren't built for truth I Julia Galef

Enchanted by the Sun: The CoEvolution of Light, Life, and Color on Earth | Peter Warshall

The Nine Planetary Boundaries: Finessing the Anthropocene | Mark Lynas

Living in the Homogenocene: The First 500 Years | Charles C. Mann

ANATHEM Book Launch Event | Neal Stephenson

Transformational Psychedelics | Rick Doblin

A New Enlightenment | Steven Pinker

Long Conversation 9 of 19 | Melissa Alexander and Ken Wilson

Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World | Steven Johnson

The Archaeology of Innovation | Sander van der Leeuw

Climate Futures: Beyond 02022 | Kim Stanley Robinson

How Stories Last | Neil Gaiman

Enduring Principles for Changing Times | Rosabeth Moss Kanter

New Worlds, New Words | Alicia Escott & Heidi Quante

Synthetic Biology Debate | Drew Endy and Jim Thomas

Rethinking Green | Stewart Brand

A Solar Metric Clock | Mike Olson

Long Now Ignite Talks 02024 | Members of Long Now

Alicia Escott and Heidi Quante | The Bureau of Linguistical Reality Performance Lecture

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 12 | Rick Prelinger

The Passage of Time and the Meaning of Life | Sean Carroll

Overview: Earth and Civilization in the Macroscope | Benjamin Grant

Live Longer, Think Longer | Mary Catherine Bateson

Interspecies Communication and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence | Laurance Doyle

Visions of the Gamepocalypse | Jesse Schell

Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs | Philip Tetlock

Nuclear Power, Climate Change, and the Next 10,000 Years | Ralph Cavanagh and Peter Schwartz

Floating Upstream: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand | John Markoff

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

Smithsonian Forever | Wayne Clough

Transparent Government | Beth Noveck

Preservation without Permission: the Paris Urban eXperiment | Lazar Kunstmann and Jon Lackman

The Bureau of Linguistical Reality Performance Lecture | Alicia Escott & Heidi Quante

Long Conversation 12 of 19 | Peter Schwartz and Pete Worden

Nature is Rebounding: Land & Ocean sparing through Concentrating Human Activities | Jesse Ausubel

The Longing for Belonging | Mark Bonchek

Algorithms to Live By | Brian Christian

3,000 Years of Maintenance | Christopher Daniel

Glacial Elevation Operations | Climate Fiction Storytellers

Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress | Niall Ferguson and Peter Schwartz

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 9 | Rick Prelinger

LOST LANDSCAPES 02021 Earth, Fire, Air, Water: California Infrastructures | Rick Prelinger

The Wizard and the Prophet | Charles C. Mann

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 6 | Rick Prelinger

Long Conversation 5 of 19 | Robin Sloan and Jill Tarter

The Modern Elder and the Intergenerational Workplace I Chip Conley

What is Plurality? | Rose Bloomin

The New Breed: What Our Animal History Reveals For Our Robotic Future | Kate Darling

The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Private vs. Public Sector Myths | Mariana Mazzucato

Birth of the Global Mind | Tim O'Reilly

Zooming Out in Time | John Baez

Saving Trees for the Right Reasons | Jared Farmer

Long Conversation 3 of 19 | Saul Griffith and Emily Levine

Climate Change Recalculated | Saul Griffith

Long Conversation 19 of 19 | Stewart Brand and Jane McGonigal

Technology Empowers the Poorest | Iqbal Quadir

Long Term Info-structure | Juan Benet

Clean Fusion Power This Decade | Ed Moses

The Long Now, now | Brian Eno and Danny Hillis

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

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 7 | Rick Prelinger

Millennial Precedent | Alexander Rose

Inside the NSA | Anne Neuberger

What the Dying Teach the Living: Death During a Pandemic | Frank Ostaseski

A Theory of History, with an Application | Paul Romer

Toward Practical Telepathy | Mary Lou Jepsen

Saving Time: Discovering A Life Beyond the Clock | Jenny Odell

How Language Shapes Thought | Lera Boroditsky

What the Dying Teach the Living | Frank Ostaseski

Civilization’s Mysterious Desert Cradle: Rediscovering the Deep Sahara | Stefan Kroepelin

Activist Anthropology | Wade Davis

Long Conversation 7 of 19 | John Perry Barlow and Violet Blue

The Long Arc of Moral Progress | Michael Shermer

Heirlooms: Saving Humanity's 10,000-year Legacy of Food | Jim Richardson

Earth in Human Hands | David Grinspoon

Climate Parables Q & A | Climate Fiction Storytellers

Patient Geoengineering | David Keith

Long Now Celebrates The Interval Decennial with New Long-Term Thinking Exhibition

The Long Time Tail | Chris Anderson and Will Hearst

Eternal Plastic: A Toxic Love Story | Susan Freinkel

Long Finance: The Enduring Value Conference | Stewart Brand, Brian Eno, and Alexander Rose

Long Conversation 4 of 19 | Emily Levine and Jill Tarter

The 10,000-year Gallery | Edward Burtynsky

Rethinking Value | Mariana Mazzucato

Beyond Digital | Nicholas Negroponte

The 'End of History' Revisited | Francis Fukuyama

The Water Will Come | Jeff Goodell

The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought | Nassim Nicholas Taleb

State, Society & Vaccines | Prerna Singh

The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment | Paul Ehrlich

Fire Slow, Fire Fast, Fire Deep | Stephen Pyne

Are We Initiating The Great Anthropocene Speciation Event? | Chris D. Thomas

How to Clone a Mammoth | Beth Shapiro

The World's Oldest Living Organisms | Rachel Sussman

Polostan | Neal Stephenson

Seeds of a Good Anthropocene | Elena Bennett

Deep Optimism | Matt Ridley

Playing with Time | Brian Eno and Will Wright

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

Embracing Uncertainty: The Secret to Effective Forecasting | Paul Saffo

Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture | Jimmy Wales

The Well Tempered City | Jonathan Rose

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 3 | Rick Prelinger

Universal Access to All Knowledge | Brewster Kahle

The Creator Economy | Paul Saffo

The Social Conquest of Earth | Edward O. Wilson

Long Now Ignite Talks 02024

Edible Insects: Where Land Conservation and Protein Meet | Brian Fisher

Prospects for Humanity | Martin Rees

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

Long Conversation 6 of 19 | Violet Blue and Robin Sloan

Pace Layers Thinking | Stewart Brand and Paul Saffo

Conservation in the Real World | Peter Kareiva

Long Conversation 1 of 19 | Stewart Brand and Jem Finer

Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster | Geoffrey B. West

Nathaniel Rich, Ryan Phelan, Ben Novak in conversation | Second Nature: the Birth of a New Ecology

Land Back | Jonathan Cordero

When is Wakanda: Imagining Afrofutures | Lonny J Avi Brooks

1177 B.C.: When Civilization Collapsed | Eric Cline

Urban Planet: Ecology, Community, and Growth Through the Next Century | Peter Calthorpe

Long Conversation 17 of 19 | Paul Hawken and Tiffany Shlain

Queering the Future | Jason Tester

Deviant Globalization | Nils Gilman

Long-term X-Prizes | Peter Diamandis

Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine | Geoff Manaugh, Nicola Twilley

Here on Earth | Tim Flannery

Radical Ag: C4 Rice and Beyond | Jane Langdale

Possible Minds | John Brockman

Open Source Civilization and the Unexpected Origins of the Silk Road | Michael Frachetti

What Doughnut Economics Can Learn From History | Roman Krznaric & Kate Raworth

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

Perfect Order: A Thousand Years in Bali | Stephen Lansing

The Decline of Violence | Steven Pinker

Reviving Extinct Species | Stewart Brand

Other Earths. Other Life. | Sara Seager

Second Life: What Do We Learn If We Digitize EVERYTHING? | Philip Rosedale

The Red Planet for Real | Andy Weir

Social Collapse Best Practices | Dmitry Orlov

Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short | John Rendon

Technium Unbound | Kevin Kelly

Thinking Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman

Alicia Eggert | This Moment Used To Be The Future

Time Travel | James Gleick

Embodied Economies: How our Economic Stories Shape the World | Denise Hearn

The Extreme Present | Douglas Coupland

Radical Sharing | Bette Adriaanse & Chelsea T. Hicks

No Time Is There--- The Digital Universe and Why Things Appear To Be Speeding Up | George Dyson

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World | Wade Davis

Endangered Languages, Lost Knowledge and the Future | Daniel Everett

Indigenous Sovereign Futures | Jonathan Cordero

The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method | Kevin Kelly

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

Cultivate the Millennium! | Dustin Bajer

The 4th Industrial Revolution: Responsible & Secure AI | Genevieve Bell

Good News & Sleeping Beauties | David Byrne

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

Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth | Craig Childs

What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen? | Vernor Vinge

Bringing Biotech to Wildlife Conservation | Ryan Phelan

Speculative Futures | Johanna Hoffman

This Moment Used To Be The Future | Alicia Eggert

Fixing Government: Bottom Up and Outside In | Jennifer Pahlka

Life's Journey Through Time | Frans Lanting

Social Simulations of Unthinkable Futures | Jane McGonigal

Viral Time | Carl Zimmer

Organically Grown & Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future | Raoul Adamchak, Pamela Ronald

Long Conversation 18 of 19 | Jane McGonigal and Tiffany Shlain

Victory Condition | Climate Fiction Storytellers

Searching for Life in the Solar System I Carolyn Porco

Sonic Spaces: A Psychology of Music and Work | Eric Debrah Otchere

Michael Tubbs | Upsetting the Setup: Creating a California for All

The Starships ARE Coming | Peter Schwartz

Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality | Daniel Suarez

Long Conversation 16 of 19 | Katherine Fulton and Paul Hawken

World Art Through The Asian Perspective | Suhanya Raffel

Infrastructure and Climate Change | Saul Griffith

Termination Shock | Neal Stephenson

Long-Term Thinking in a Distracted World | Bina Venkataraman

Long Conversation 11 of 19 | Ken Foster and Pete Worden

Accelerated Learning in Accelerated Times | Timothy Ferriss

Fixing Broken Government | Philip K. Howard

The New Great Transformation | Paul Hawken

Machines Like Me | Ian McEwan

Design by Radical Indigenism | Julia Watson

Oceanic | Sylvia Earle and Tierney Thys

Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 5 | Rick Prelinger

Life's Future in the Cosmos | Martin Rees

Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages | Alex Wright

The Universal Laws of Growth and Pace | Geoffrey B. West

Ten Millennia of California Ecology | Laura Cunningham

Cities: The First 6,000 Years | Monica L. Smith

A History of the Future in 100 Objects | Adrian Hon

Why Mobility is Destiny | Parag Khanna

Tracking the First People into Ice Age North America | Craig Childs

Full Spectrum: The Science of Color and Modern Human Perception | Adam Rogers

Cities and Time | Gavin Newsom

The Deeper News About the New Philanthropy | Larry Brilliant, Katherine Fulton, Richard Rockefeller