Happy Summer Solstice! Today is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. For millennia, people have used the solstices to keep track of the passage of time. Stonehenge is one of many examples of calendars aligned to the solstice sunrise. https://longnow.org/ideas/how-to-tell-time-using-stonehenge/ Photos from The Long Now Foundation’s post
How can science fiction help us imagine new futures and make sense of our current civilizational struggles? Listen to our new podcast with Hugo-award winning sci-fi authors Becky Chambers & Annalee Newitz to find out how to Resist Dystopia. Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking: Becky Chambers, Annalee Newitz: Resisting Dystopia on Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com
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Want to build something that lasts? We’re looking for an Executive Director to lead The Long Now Foundation into its next quarter-century. We stand at a critical juncture in the history of our society. We’re looking for a visionary leader that will help steer us into the future with long-term thinking and bold decision-making. As
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Next week: Join us for a Long Now Talk with Revive & Restore co-founder and Executive Director Ryan Phelan on how biotechnology can aid in wildlife conservation and restoration! When this happens, it’s usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people or changed who can see it, or it’s been
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With tremendous gratitude, the Board of Directors of the Long Now Foundation announces that Alexander Rose will be stepping down from his role as Executive Director after 26 years of service to focus on his research into the world’s longest-lived organizations. Several years ago, Alexander began a study of institutions that have stood the test
How did we get to now and where might we go from here? Long Now is accepting pitches of essays, reported features, interviews, book reviews, fiction & poetry for Ideas, our living archive of long-term thinking. There is wisdom and clarity to be gained from taking the long view. Long Now Ideas gives our readers
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Survival in the Anthropocene requires us to upgrade not just our technology, but our collective imagination. Join us on May 12 and 13th for the Climate Parables: two nights of live science storytelling, art, and music with Anthropocene magazine and Back pocket media.
Have a great idea for a Long Now Talk? We’re excited to invite our Long Now Members to submit an idea for our Ignite Talks – a member-led collection of short talks, premiering Tuesday, July 11, 02023. Ignite Talk speakers have precisely 5 minutes to amuse, educate, enlighten, or inspire the audience on a topic
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How can we turn the tide on species loss and help biodiversity and bioabundance flourish for millennia to come? Join us on April 4 for a Long Now Talk with Revive & Restore Executive Director Ryan Phelan on how the latest advances in biotechnology can support wildlife conservation. In her talk, Ryan Phelan will share
“The best climate fiction can do more than spur us to action to save the world we have — it can help us conceptualize the worlds, both beautiful and dire, that may lie ahead. These stories can be maps to the future.” https://longnow.org/ideas/how-to-imagine-climate-futures/
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