By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 28 Sep 23
Globalization has remade our world, but failed our societies. What comes next? Watch Henry Farrell’s talk on the Complex Aftermath of Globalization, featuring a Q&A with Nils Gilman of the Berggruen Institute. Henry Farrell | The Complex Aftermath of Globalizationyoutube.comOver the last two years, the US government has started thinking about the future of the world in a very different way. Across speeches and policy papers, a v…
Globalization has remade our world, but failed our societies. What comes next? Watch Henry Farrell’s talk on the Complex Aftermath of Globalization, featuring a Q&A with Nils Gilman of the Berggruen Institute. Henry Farrell | The Complex Aftermath of Globalizationyoutube.comOver the last two years, the US government has started thinking about the future of the world in a very different
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 27 Sep 23
Good evening everyone! Welcome to tonight’s Long Now Talk featuring Henry Farrell on The Complex Aftermath of Globalization. Globalization has reshaped the world into a more tightly interconnected one – for better, and for worse. Challenges like climate change, supply chain vulnerabilities, and mass migration emerge from the interdependent choices of people and governments in a global system without global rulers. In a complex interdependent world, is the only way forward to accept these complexities, and try to work with them? Join International Relations scholar Henry Farrell for a look into how we can move from the simple imagined futures
Good evening everyone! Welcome to tonight’s Long Now Talk featuring Henry Farrell on The Complex Aftermath of Globalization. Globalization has reshaped the world into a more tightly interconnected one – for better, and for worse. Challenges like climate change, supply chain vulnerabilities, and mass migration emerge from the interdependent choices of people and governments in a global system without global
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 13 Sep 23
Good evening everyone! Welcome to tonight’s Long Now Talk featuring Coco Krumme on The False Promise of Optimization. Optimized models underlie more and more of the world around us. They are deeply embedded in the technological assumptions that have come to comprise our material reality and what we make of it. But how did a mathematical concept take on such outsized cultural shape? What have we lost through a single-minded pursuit of optimization? In this talk, applied mathematician and writer Coco Krumme will expose the sizable trade-offs we have made in the name of optimization and confront what comes next.
Good evening everyone! Welcome to tonight’s Long Now Talk featuring Coco Krumme on The False Promise of Optimization. Optimized models underlie more and more of the world around us. They are deeply embedded in the technological assumptions that have come to comprise our material reality and what we make of it. But how did a mathematical concept take on such
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Sep 23
Optimized models underlie more and more of the world around us. They are deeply embedded in the technological assumptions that have come to comprise our material reality and what we make of it. But how did a mathematical concept take on such outsized cultural shape? What have we lost through a single-minded pursuit of optimization? Tomorrow: Join us for a Long Now Talk with applied mathematician and writer Coco Krumme about her new book on the False Promise of Optimization.
Optimized models underlie more and more of the world around us. They are deeply embedded in the technological assumptions that have come to comprise our material reality and what we make of it. But how did a mathematical concept take on such outsized cultural shape? What have we lost through a single-minded pursuit of optimization? Tomorrow: Join us for a
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 6 Sep 23
𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙬𝙚 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙬? 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. For more information on the kinds of stories we’re looking for, how much we pay, and how to pitch us, see our pitch guide: How to Pitch Long Nowlongnow.orgWe welcome your contributions to our ongoing conversation about long-term thinking.
𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙬𝙚 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙬? 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. For more information on the kinds of stories we’re looking for, how much we pay, and how to pitch us, see our pitch guide: How
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 6 Sep 23
Photos from The Interval at Long Now’s post
Photos from The Interval at Long Now’s post
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 31 Aug 23
In scientific archives the world over, ghosts of time and space lurk. Collected by long-dead naturalists and biologists, each collected specimen is a window into the moment of its creation — and the centuries of science that followed. In a dispatch from the entomological archives, writer and researcher A’liya Spinner tells us of how the preservation of bee specimens across centuries allows us to embrace the temporal expanse of what came before us & leave good records for those who follow. https://longnow.org/ideas/the-three-century-lifespan-of-the-modern-bee/
In scientific archives the world over, ghosts of time and space lurk. Collected by long-dead naturalists and biologists, each collected specimen is a window into the moment of its creation — and the centuries of science that followed. In a dispatch from the entomological archives, writer and researcher A’liya Spinner tells us of how the preservation of bee specimens across
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 31 Aug 23
From Dirt to Treasure | Ya’el Shatzyoutu.beLong Now Member Ya’el Shatz reveals the layers of dust that connect us all to each other — past, present, and future.With thousands of members from all arou…
From Dirt to Treasure | Ya’el Shatzyoutu.beLong Now Member Ya’el Shatz reveals the layers of dust that connect us all to each other — past, present, and future.With thousands of members from all arou…
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 23 Aug 23
Good evening everyone! Welcome to tonight’s Long Now Talk featuring Bette Adriaanse in conversation with Chelsea T. Hicks on Radical Sharing. Bette & Chelsea will be joined for this Talk by virtual guests Brian Eno, Margaret Levi, and Aqui Thami.Bette Adriaanse, Chelsea T. Hicks | Radical Sharingwww.youtube.comOur bodies, our houses, our land, our space – we humans don’t always like to share. Author Bette Adriaanse talks with Chelsea T. Hicks, and virtual guests Br…
Good evening everyone! Welcome to tonight’s Long Now Talk featuring Bette Adriaanse in conversation with Chelsea T. Hicks on Radical Sharing. Bette & Chelsea will be joined for this Talk by virtual guests Brian Eno, Margaret Levi, and Aqui Thami.Bette Adriaanse, Chelsea T. Hicks | Radical Sharingwww.youtube.comOur bodies, our houses, our land, our space – we humans don’t always like
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 16 Aug 23
Next Week: We humans don’t always like to share. Author Bette Adriaanse talks with Chelsea T. Hicks, and virtual guests Brian Eno, Margaret Levi, and Aqui Thami, about property, sharing, and how to make a lasting positive change in the way we share the world with each other.Photos from The Long Now Foundation’s post
Next Week: We humans don’t always like to share. Author Bette Adriaanse talks with Chelsea T. Hicks, and virtual guests Brian Eno, Margaret Levi, and Aqui Thami, about property, sharing, and how to make a lasting positive change in the way we share the world with each other.Photos from The Long Now Foundation’s post