Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
We're delighted to showcase this curated set of Ignite Talks, created and given by Long Now members. Presenting on the subjects of their choice, our speakers have precisely 5 minutes to amuse, educate, enlighten, or inspire the audience!
And we are excited to announce our speakers and their talks:
Jenny Johnston - A Protopian Frontier
Mike Olson - A Solar Metric Clock
Ben Haldeman - Expanding Life & Consciousness in the Universe
Christopher Daniel - 3,000 Years of Maintenance
Rose Bloomin - What is Plurality?
Andrew Hessel - The Age of Programming Life
Dustin Bajer - Cultivate the Millennium!
Elle Miller - Unlocking Innovation Together: The Power of Public-Private Partnerships
Mark Bonchek - The Longing for Belonging
Andrew Warner - Interval Decennial Sneak Peek
Jane McGonigal - Social Simulations of Unthinkable Futures
The Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call the long now.
Our global membership program connects over 11,000 people across more than 65 countries to our library of long-term thinking. Members help us deliver Long Now Talks videos, podcasts, and our writing on Ideas to over 19 million people and counting around the world.
You can support these Talks by becoming a Long Now member:
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Explore all of our Talks on longnow.org
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We're delighted to showcase this curated set of Ignite Talks, created and given by Long Now members. Presenting on the subjects of their choice, our speakers have precisely 5 minutes to amuse, educate, enlighten, or inspire the audience!
And we are excited to announce our speakers and their talks:
Jenny Johnston - A Protopian Frontier
Mike Olson - A Solar Metric Clock
Ben Haldeman - Expanding Life & Consciousness in the Universe
Christopher Daniel - 3,000 Years of Maintenance
Rose Bloomin - What is Plurality?
Andrew Hessel - The Age of Programming Life
Dustin Bajer - Cultivate the Millennium!
Elle Miller - Unlocking Innovation Together: The Power of Public-Private Partnerships
Mark Bonchek - The Longing for Belonging
Andrew Warner - Interval Decennial Sneak Peek
Jane McGonigal - Social Simulations of Unthinkable Futures
The Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call the long now.
Our global membership program connects over 11,000 people across more than 65 countries to our library of long-term thinking. Members help us deliver Long Now Talks videos, podcasts, and our writing on Ideas to over 19 million people and counting around the world.
You can support these Talks by becoming a Long Now member:
longnow.org/join
Subscribe to Long Now on YouTube
youtube.com/@longnow
Subscribe to the Long Now podcast & newsletter
longnow.org/subscribe
Explore all of our Talks on longnow.org
longnow.org/talks
