By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 3 Aug 23
Miss our Member Ignite Talks last week? You can watch all of them on YouTube now: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6uS2H8g4Y2_M7AxP7tXReQS7FpAbaQXL
Miss our Member Ignite Talks last week? You can watch all of them on YouTube now: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6uS2H8g4Y2_M7AxP7tXReQS7FpAbaQXL
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 12 Jul 23
Good evening everyone! Welcome to the Long Now Member Ignite Talks featuring 13 Long Now Members on topics of their choice. Long Now has produced hundreds of talks from the world’s leading long-term thinkers. Now, we’re showcasing a curated set of Ignite Talks created & given by our own members. An Ignite talk is a story format created by Brady Forrest & Bre Pettis that’s 5 minutes long, told by a speaker who has 20 slides that advances automatically every 15 seconds – ready or not! Join us on YouTube to watch the talks, and chat with our presenters! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKAw0rtZAbU
Good evening everyone! Welcome to the Long Now Member Ignite Talks featuring 13 Long Now Members on topics of their choice. Long Now has produced hundreds of talks from the world’s leading long-term thinkers. Now, we’re showcasing a curated set of Ignite Talks created & given by our own members. An Ignite talk is a story format created by Brady
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 21 Jun 23
Biotechnology can help us turn the tide on the new wave of species loss – and unlock a new age of biological abundance for future generations. Ryan Phelan, Executive Director of Revive & Restore, explains how we can bring biotech to wildlife conservation: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ryan-phelan-bringing-biotech-to-wildlife-conservation/id186908455?i=1000617775298
Biotechnology can help us turn the tide on the new wave of species loss – and unlock a new age of biological abundance for future generations. Ryan Phelan, Executive Director of Revive & Restore, explains how we can bring biotech to wildlife conservation: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ryan-phelan-bringing-biotech-to-wildlife-conservation/id186908455?i=1000617775298
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 21 Jun 23
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
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
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 15 Jun 23
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 Podcastspodcasts.apple.comShow Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking, Ep Becky Chambers, Annalee Newitz: Resisting Dystopia – Jun 15, 2023
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 Podcastspodcasts.apple.comShow Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking,
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 9 Jun 23
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 Executive Director, you will lead all aspects of The Long Now Foundation as we enter our next chapter as an organization. Your responsibility: making a long-lasting impact and leaving an inspiring legacy for future generations. Long Now’s Executive Director will work to advance and refine
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 Executive Director, you will lead
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Jun 23
“Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.” – KIM STANLEY ROBINSON
“Utopia is the process of making a better world, the name for one path history can take, a dynamic, tumultuous, agonizing process, with no end. Struggle forever.” – KIM STANLEY ROBINSON
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Jun 23
To understand the world we’re living in, we need to look beyond the nation-state and towards something bigger. Understanding the Modern World-System in the Longue Duréelongnow.orgTo understand the world we’re living in, we need to look beyond the nation-state and towards something bigger.
To understand the world we’re living in, we need to look beyond the nation-state and towards something bigger. Understanding the Modern World-System in the Longue Duréelongnow.orgTo understand the world we’re living in, we need to look beyond the nation-state and towards something bigger.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Jun 23
Are we living to the rhythm of the wrong clock? Jenny Odell’s SAVING TIME explores the limits of rigid, industrial “clock time” and how we need to reconsider our relationship with time so we can recover an appetite for the future. Watch her Long Now Talk: Saving Time: Discovering A Life Beyond the Clock | Jenny Odellwww.youtube.comArtist and writer Jenny Odell brings her acutely insightful observations to the dominant framework of time, based on industrial and colonial worldviews, that…
Are we living to the rhythm of the wrong clock? Jenny Odell’s SAVING TIME explores the limits of rigid, industrial “clock time” and how we need to reconsider our relationship with time so we can recover an appetite for the future. Watch her Long Now Talk: Saving Time: Discovering A Life Beyond the Clock | Jenny Odellwww.youtube.comArtist and writer Jenny