Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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Explore hundreds of lectures by scientists, historians, artists, entrepreneurs, and more through The Long Now Foundation's award-winning lecture series, curated and hosted by Long Now co-founder Stewart Brand (creator of the Whole Earth Catalog). Recorded live in San Francisco each month since 02003, past speakers include Brian Eno, Neil Gaiman, Sylvia Earle, Daniel Kahneman, Jennifer Pahlka, Steven Johnson, and many more. Watch video of these talks and learn more about our projects at Longnow.org. The Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility.

Episode Date
Alicia Escott, Heidi Quante: The Bureau of Linguistical Reality Performance Lecture
May 01, 2024
Jonathan Cordero: Indigenous Sovereign Futures
Apr 19, 2024
Denise Hearn: Embodied Economies: How our Economic Stories Shape the World
Mar 07, 2024
Jared Farmer: Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees
Dec 22, 2023
Abby Smith Rumsey: Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures
Nov 22, 2023
Henry Farrell: The Complex Aftermath of Globalization
Nov 16, 2023
Coco Krumme: The False Promise of Optimization
Oct 19, 2023
Bette Adriaanse, Chelsea T. Hicks: Radical Sharing
Oct 10, 2023
: The Climate Parables: Reporting from the Future
Jun 28, 2023
Ryan Phelan: Bringing Biotech to Wildlife Conservation
Jun 20, 2023
Becky Chambers, Annalee Newitz: Resisting Dystopia
Jun 15, 2023
Jenny Odell: Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
Apr 14, 2023
Ismail Ali: Psychedelics: History at the Crossroads
Mar 21, 2023
Ryan North: How to Invent Everything
Mar 01, 2023
Adam Rogers: Full Spectrum: The Science of Color and Modern Human Perception
Feb 24, 2023
Parag Khanna: Why Mobility is Destiny
Feb 18, 2023
Eric Debrah Otchere: Sonic Spaces: A Psychology of Music and Work
Feb 10, 2023
Wade Davis: Activist Anthropology
Jan 27, 2023
Johanna Hoffman: Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need
Jan 20, 2023
Kate Darling: The New Breed: What Our Animal History Reveals For Our Robotic Future
Jan 13, 2023
Suzanne Simard: Mother Trees and the Social Forest
Jan 05, 2023
Alicia Eggert: This Moment Used To Be The Future
Dec 15, 2022
Stewart Brand, Jonathan Haidt, Kevin Kelly: Democracy in the Next Cycle of History
Oct 06, 2022
Michael Tubbs: Upsetting the Setup: Creating a California for All
Aug 16, 2022
Dorie Clark: The Long Game: How to be a long-term thinker in a short-term world
May 18, 2022
Kim Stanley Robinson: Climate Futures: Beyond 02022
Apr 27, 2022
John Markoff: Floating Upstream: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Apr 27, 2022
Prerna Singh: State, Society and Vaccines
Mar 25, 2022
Sean Carroll: The Passage of Time and the Meaning of Life
Mar 02, 2022
Neal Stephenson: Termination Shock
Feb 17, 2022
Geoff Manaugh, Nicola Twilley: Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
Feb 08, 2022
David Rooney: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
Dec 23, 2021
Alexander Rose: Continuity: Discovering the Lessons behind the World’s Longest-lived Organizations
Sep 23, 2021
Nathaniel Rich, Ryan Phelan, Ben Novak: Second Nature: Green Rabbits, Passenger Pigeons, Cloned Ferrets, and the Birth of a New Ecology
Aug 20, 2021
Peter Leyden: The Transformation: A Future History of the World from 02020 to 02050
Feb 23, 2021
Jason Tester: Queering the Future: How LGBTQ Foresight Can Benefit All
Feb 03, 2021
James Nestor: The Future of Breathing
Dec 23, 2020
Nadia Eghbal: The Making and Maintenance of our Open Source Infrastructure
Dec 10, 2020
Roman Krznaric: Becoming a Better Ancestor
Nov 19, 2020
Julia Watson: Design by Radical Indigenism
Oct 06, 2020
Genevieve Bell: The 4th Industrial Revolution: Responsible & Secure AI
Aug 28, 2020
Craig Childs: Tracking the First People into Ice Age North America
Aug 17, 2020
Peter Calthorpe: Urban Planet: Ecology, Community, and Growth Through the Next Century
Aug 06, 2020
Lonny J Avi Brooks: When is Wakanda: Imagining Afrofutures
Jul 27, 2020
Brian Fisher: Edible Insects: Where Land Conservation and Protein Meet
Jul 15, 2020
Laurance Doyle: Interspecies Communication and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Jun 23, 2020
Rick Doblin: Transformational Psychedelics
Jun 11, 2020
Eric Ries: Long-Term Stock Exchange
Mar 03, 2020
Bina Venkataraman: Long-Term Thinking in a Distracted World
Jan 29, 2020
Andrew McAfee: More From Less
Dec 02, 2019
Suhanya Raffel: World Art Through The Asian Perspective
Oct 21, 2019
Monica L. Smith: Cities: The First 6,000 Years
Aug 23, 2019
Marcia Bjornerud: Timefulness
Aug 14, 2019
Mariana Mazzucato: Rethinking Value
Jul 12, 2019
David Byrne: Good News & Sleeping Beauties
Jun 21, 2019
Ian McEwan: Machines Like Me
May 17, 2019
Jeff Goodell: The Water Will Come
Apr 08, 2019
Chip Conley: The Modern Elder and the Intergenerational Workplace
Mar 20, 2019
John Brockman: Possible Minds
Mar 13, 2019
Martin Rees: Prospects for Humanity
Jan 22, 2019
Stewart Brand: Whole Earth Catalog 50th Anniversary Celebration
Dec 14, 2018
Niall Ferguson: Networks and Power
Dec 13, 2018
Mary Lou Jepsen: Toward Practical Telepathy
Nov 05, 2018
Julia Galef: Soldiers and Scouts: Why our minds weren't built for truth, and how we can change that
Sep 19, 2018
Juan Benet: Long Term Info-structure
Aug 15, 2018
George P. Shultz: Perspective
Aug 02, 2018
Chris D. Thomas: Are We Initiating The Great Anthropocene Speciation Event?
Jun 26, 2018
Benjamin Grant: Overview: Earth and Civilization in the Macroscope
May 30, 2018
Kishore Mahbubani: Has the West Lost It? Can Asia Save It?
May 01, 2018
Steven Pinker: A New Enlightenment
Mar 20, 2018
Michael Frachetti: Open Source Civilization and the Unexpected Origins of the Silk Road
Mar 09, 2018
Charles C. Mann: The Wizard and the Prophet
Jan 29, 2018
Elena Bennett: Seeds of a Good Anthropocene
Dec 29, 2017
Renee Wegrzyn: Engineering Gene Safety
Nov 20, 2017
David Grinspoon: Earth in Human Hands
Sep 20, 2017
Nicky Case: Seeing Whole Systems
Aug 17, 2017
Carolyn Porco: Searching for Life in the Solar System
Aug 10, 2017
James Gleick: Time Travel
Jun 26, 2017
Andy Weir: The Red Planet for Real
Jun 09, 2017
Stewart Brand, Paul Saffo: Pace Layers Thinking
Jun 09, 2017
Geoffrey B. West: The Universal Laws of Growth and Pace
May 24, 2017
Frank Ostaseski: What the Dying Teach the Living
Apr 11, 2017
Bjorn Lomborg: From Feel-Good to High-Yield Good: How to Improve Philanthropy and Aid
Mar 14, 2017
Jennifer Pahlka: Fixing Government: Bottom Up and Outside In
Feb 02, 2017
Steven Johnson: Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
Jan 05, 2017
Douglas Coupland: The Extreme Present
Nov 02, 2016
David Eagleman: The Brain and The Now
Oct 05, 2016
Jonathan Rose: The Well Tempered City
Sep 21, 2016
Seth Lloyd: Quantum Computer Reality
Aug 10, 2016
Kevin Kelly: The Next 30 Digital Years
Jul 15, 2016
Brian Christian: Algorithms to Live By
Jun 21, 2016
Walter Mischel: The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
May 03, 2016
Priyamvada Natarajan: Solving Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Apr 12, 2016
Jane Langdale: Radical Ag: C4 Rice and Beyond
Mar 15, 2016
Stephen Pyne: Fire Slow, Fire Fast, Fire Deep
Feb 10, 2016
Eric Cline: 1177 B.C.: When Civilization Collapsed
Jan 12, 2016
Philip Tetlock: Superforecasting
Nov 24, 2015
James Fallows: Civilization's Infrastructure
Oct 07, 2015
Saul Griffith: Infrastructure and Climate Change
Sep 22, 2015
Sara Seager: Other Earths. Other Life.
Aug 11, 2015
Ramez Naam: Enhancing Humans, Advancing Humanity
Jul 23, 2015
Neil Gaiman: How Stories Last
Jun 10, 2015
Beth Shapiro: How to Clone a Mammoth
May 12, 2015
Michael Shermer: The Long Arc of Moral Progress
Apr 15, 2015
Paul Saffo: The Creator Economy
Apr 01, 2015
David Keith: Patient Geoengineering
Feb 18, 2015
Jesse Ausubel: Nature is Rebounding: Land- and Ocean-sparing through Concentrating Human Activities
Jan 14, 2015
Kevin Kelly: Technium Unbound
Nov 13, 2014
Larry Harvey: Why The Man Keeps Burning
Oct 21, 2014
Drew Endy: The iGEM Revolution
Sep 17, 2014
Anne Neuberger: Inside the NSA
Aug 07, 2014
Adrian Hon: A History of the Future in 100 Objects
Jul 17, 2014
Stefan Kroepelin: Civilization’s Mysterious Desert Cradle: Rediscovering the Deep Sahara
Jun 11, 2014
Sylvia Earle, Tierney Thys: Oceanic
May 21, 2014
Tony Hsieh: Helping Revitalize a City
Apr 23, 2014
Mariana Mazzucato: The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Private vs. Public Sector Myths
Mar 25, 2014
Brian Eno, Danny Hillis: The Long Now, now
Jan 22, 2014
Richard Kurin: American History in 101 Objects
Nov 19, 2013
Adam Steltzner: Beyond Mars, Earth
Oct 16, 2013
Peter Schwartz: The Starships ARE Coming
Sep 18, 2013
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow
Aug 14, 2013
Craig Childs: Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth
Jul 30, 2013
Ed Lu: Anthropocene Astronomy: Thwarting Dangerous Asteroids Begins with Finding Them
Jun 19, 2013
Stewart Brand: Reviving Extinct Species
May 22, 2013
Nicholas Negroponte: Beyond Digital
Apr 18, 2013
George Dyson: No Time Is There--- The Digital Universe and Why Things Appear To Be Speeding Up
Mar 20, 2013
Chris Anderson: The Makers Revolution
Feb 20, 2013
Terry Hunt, Carl Lipo: The Statues Walked -- What Really Happened on Easter Island
Jan 18, 2013
Peter Warshall: Enchanted by the Sun: The CoEvolution of Light, Life, and Color on Earth
Nov 29, 2012
Lazar Kunstmann, Jon Lackman: Preservation without Permission: the Paris Urban eXperiment
Nov 14, 2012
Steven Pinker: The Decline of Violence
Oct 09, 2012
Tim O'Reilly: Birth of the Global Mind
Sep 06, 2012
Elaine Pagels: The Truth About the Book of Revelations
Aug 21, 2012
Cory Doctorow: The Coming Century of War Against Your Computer
Aug 01, 2012
Benjamin Barber: If Mayors Ruled the World
Jun 06, 2012
Susan Freinkel: Eternal Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
May 23, 2012
Charles C. Mann: Living in the Homogenocene: The First 500 Years
Apr 24, 2012
Edward O. Wilson: The Social Conquest of Earth
Apr 21, 2012
Mark Lynas: The Nine Planetary Boundaries: Finessing the Anthropocene
Mar 07, 2012
Jim Richardson: Heirlooms: Saving Humanity's 10,000-year Legacy of Food
Feb 23, 2012
Lawrence Lessig: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It
Jan 18, 2012
Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 6
Dec 09, 2011
Brewster Kahle: Universal Access to All Knowledge
Dec 01, 2011
Laura Cunningham: Ten Millennia of California Ecology
Oct 18, 2011
Timothy Ferriss: Accelerated Learning in Accelerated Times
Sep 15, 2011
Geoffrey B. West: Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster
Jul 26, 2011
Peter Kareiva: Conservation in the Real World
Jun 28, 2011
Carl Zimmer: Viral Time
Jun 08, 2011
Tim Flannery: Here on Earth
May 04, 2011
Ian Morris: Why the West Rules - For Now
Apr 14, 2011
Alexander Rose: Millennial Precedent
Apr 06, 2011
Matt Ridley: Deep Optimism
Mar 23, 2011
Mary Catherine Bateson: Live Longer, Think Longer
Feb 10, 2011
Philip K. Howard: Fixing Broken Government
Jan 19, 2011
Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 5
Dec 17, 2010
Rachel Sussman: The World's Oldest Living Organisms
Nov 16, 2010
Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought
Oct 27, 2010
Stewart Brand, Jane McGonigal: Long Conversation 19 of 19
Oct 17, 2010
Jane McGonigal, Tiffany Shlain: Long Conversation 18 of 19
Oct 17, 2010
Paul Hawken, Tiffany Shlain: Long Conversation 17 of 19
Oct 17, 2010
Katherine Fulton, Paul Hawken: Long Conversation 16 of 19
Oct 17, 2010
Stuart Candy, Katherine Fulton: Long Conversation 15 of 19
Oct 17, 2010
Stuart Candy, Danese Cooper: Long Conversation 14 of 19
Oct 17, 2010
Danese Cooper, Peter Schwartz: Long Conversation 13 of 19
Oct 17, 2010
Peter Schwartz, Pete Worden: Long Conversation 12 of 19
Oct 17, 2010
Ken Foster, Pete Worden: Long Conversation 11 of 19
Oct 17, 2010
Melissa Alexander, Ken Foster: Long Conversation 10 of 19
Oct 17, 2010
Melissa Alexander, Ken Wilson: Long Conversation 9 of 19
Oct 17, 2010
John Perry Barlow, Ken Wilson: Long Conversation 8 of 19
Oct 17, 2010
John Perry Barlow, Violet Blue: Long Conversation 7 of 19
Oct 16, 2010
Violet Blue, Robin Sloan: Long Conversation 6 of 19
Oct 16, 2010
Robin Sloan, Jill Tarter: Long Conversation 5 of 19
Oct 16, 2010
Emily Levine, Jill Tarter: Long Conversation 4 of 19
Oct 16, 2010
Saul Griffith, Emily Levine: Long Conversation 3 of 19
Oct 16, 2010
Jem Finer, Saul Griffith: Long Conversation 2 of 19
Oct 16, 2010
Stewart Brand, Jem Finer: Long Conversation 1 of 19
Oct 16, 2010
Martin Rees: Life's Future in the Cosmos
Aug 03, 2010
Jesse Schell: Visions of the Gamepocalypse
Jul 28, 2010
Frank Gavin: Five Ways to Use History Well
Jul 13, 2010
Ed Moses: Clean Fusion Power This Decade
Jun 17, 2010
Nils Gilman: Deviant Globalization
May 04, 2010
David Eagleman: Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization
Apr 02, 2010
Beth Noveck: Transparent Government
Mar 05, 2010
Alan Weisman: World Without Us, World With Us
Feb 25, 2010
Stewart Brand, Brian Eno, Alexander Rose: Long Finance: The Enduring Value Conference
Feb 01, 2010
Wade Davis: The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
Jan 14, 2010
Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4
Dec 05, 2009
Sander van der Leeuw: The Archaeology of Innovation
Nov 19, 2009
Stewart Brand: Rethinking Green
Oct 10, 2009
Arthur Ganson: Machines and the Breath of Time
Sep 15, 2009
Wayne Clough: Smithsonian Forever
Aug 18, 2009
Raoul Adamchak, Pamela Ronald: Organically Grown and Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future
Jul 29, 2009
Paul Romer: A Theory of History, with an Application
May 19, 2009
Michael Pollan: Deep Agriculture
May 06, 2009
Gavin Newsom: Cities and Time
Apr 09, 2009
Daniel Everett: Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future
Mar 21, 2009
Dmitry Orlov: Social Collapse Best Practices
Feb 14, 2009
Saul Griffith: Climate Change Recalculated
Jan 17, 2009
Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco
Dec 20, 2008
Drew Endy, Jim Thomas: Synthetic Biology Debate
Nov 18, 2008
Huey Johnson: Green Planning at Nation Scale
Oct 04, 2008
Peter Diamandis: Long-term X-Prizes
Sep 13, 2008
Neal Stephenson: ANATHEM Book Launch Event
Sep 09, 2008
Daniel Suarez: Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality
Aug 09, 2008
Edward Burtynsky: The 10,000-year Gallery
Jul 24, 2008
Paul Ehrlich: The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment
Jun 28, 2008
Iqbal Quadir: Technology Empowers the Poorest
May 22, 2008
Niall Ferguson, Peter Schwartz: Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress
Apr 29, 2008
Craig Venter: Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention
Feb 26, 2008
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought
Feb 05, 2008
Paul Saffo: Embracing Uncertainty: the secret to effective forecasting
Jan 12, 2008
Joline Blais, Jon Ippolito: At the Edge of Art
Dec 15, 2007
Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Enduring Principles for Changing Times
Nov 10, 2007
Juan Enriquez: Mapping the Frontier of Knowledge
Oct 13, 2007
Rip Anderson, Gwyneth Cravens: Power to Save the World
Sep 15, 2007
Alex Wright: Glut: Mastering Information Though the Ages
Aug 18, 2007
Francis Fukuyama: 'The End of History' Revisited
Jun 29, 2007
Paul Hawken: The New Great Transformation
Jun 09, 2007
Steven Johnson: The Long Zoom
May 12, 2007
Frans Lanting: Life's Journey Through Time
Apr 28, 2007
Brian Fagan: We Are Not the First to Suffer Through Climate Change
Mar 10, 2007
Vernor Vinge: What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen?
Feb 16, 2007
Philip Tetlock: Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs
Jan 27, 2007
Philip Rosedale: 'Second Life:' What Do We Learn If We Digitize EVERYTHING?
Dec 01, 2006
Larry Brilliant, Katherine Fulton, Richard Rockefeller: The Deeper News About the New Philanthropy
Nov 04, 2006
John Baez: Zooming Out in Time
Oct 14, 2006
Orville Schell: China Thinks Long-term, But Can It Relearn to Act Long-term?
Sep 23, 2006
John Rendon: Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short
Jul 15, 2006
Brian Eno, Will Wright: Playing with Time
Jun 27, 2006
Chris Anderson, Will Hearst: The Long Time Tail
May 13, 2006
Jimmy Wales: Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture
Apr 15, 2006
Kevin Kelly: The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method.
Mar 11, 2006
Stephen Lansing: Perfect Order: A Thousand Years in Bali
Feb 14, 2006
Ralph Cavanagh, Peter Schwartz: Nuclear Power, Climate Change and the Next 10,000 Years
Jan 14, 2006
Sam Harris: The View from the End of the World
Dec 10, 2005
Clay Shirky: Making Digital Durable: What Time Does to Categories
Nov 15, 2005
Esther Dyson, Freeman Dyson, George Dyson: The Difficulty of Looking Far Ahead
Oct 06, 2005
Ray Kurzweil: Kurzweil's Law
Sep 24, 2005
Robert Fuller: Patient Revolution: Human Rights Past and Future
Aug 13, 2005
Jared Diamond: How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed
Jul 16, 2005
Robert Neuwirth: The 21st Century Medieval City
Jun 11, 2005
Stewart Brand: Cities & Time
Apr 09, 2005
Spencer Beebe: Very Long-term Very Large-scale Biomimicry
Mar 12, 2005
Roger Kennedy: The Political History of North America from 25,000 BC to 12,000 AD
Feb 26, 2005
James Carse: Religious War In Light of the Infinite Game
Jan 15, 2005
Ken Dychtwald: The Consequences of Human Life Extension
Dec 04, 2004
Michael West: The Prospects of Human Life Extension
Nov 13, 2004
Paul Hawken: The Long Green
Oct 16, 2004
Danny Hillis: Progress on the 10,000-year Clock
Sep 11, 2004
Phillip Longman: The Depopulation Problem
Aug 14, 2004
Jill Tarter: The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence: Necessarily a Long-term Strategy
Jul 10, 2004
Bruce Sterling: The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole
Jun 12, 2004
David Rumsey: Mapping Time
May 15, 2004
Daniel Janzen: Third World Conservation: It's ALL Gardening
Apr 10, 2004
Rusty Schweickart: The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years
Mar 13, 2004
James Dewar: Long-term Policy Analysis
Feb 14, 2004
George Dyson: There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing
Jan 10, 2004
Peter Schwartz: The Art Of The Really Long View
Dec 13, 2003
Brian Eno: The Long Now
Nov 15, 2003