Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees | Jared Farmer Long Now Foundation 2023-12-15 | "What really interests me is how long-lived plants allow humans to think about—and emotionally relate to—long units of time. They provide a bridge between human time and geological time." -- Jared FarmerJoin us for an evening with geohumanist and historian Jared Farmer, who will share his multi-faceted approach to understanding our human relationship with trees over millennia. From ancient stories, as objects of reverence, named individuals and clonal organisms, sources of wealth in ancient and modern times, the lungs of the planet and the wood wide web - trees are deeply interwoven with our histories, cultures and growing scientific understanding of our complex global ecosystem. Farmer reflects on our long-term relationships with long-lived trees, and considers the future of oldness on a rapidly changing planet.Jared Farmer is a geohumanist and place-based historian. Farmer is a Professor of History at Penn, studying landscapes and environments from the hyperlocal to the planetary, with emphasis on the nineteenth century in the American West. His book include Trees in Paradise: A California History (02013), and Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees (02022)."Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees" was given on November 14, 02023 as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminar series. The series was started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's leading thinkers. The Seminars take place in San Francisco and are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand. To follow the talks, you can:Subscribe to our podcasts: longnow.org/seminars/podcastExplore the full series: theinterval.org/salon-talksMore ideas on long-term thinking: blog.longnow.orgThe Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions.Become a Long Now member to support this series, join our community, and connect with our ongoing work to explore and deepen long-term thinking: longnow.org/membershipLike us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/longnowFollow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/longnowSubscribe to our channel: www.youtube.com/longnow
Neal Stephenson | Polostan Long Now Foundation 2024-10-17 | We are thrilled to be hosting the launch of Neal Stephenson's newest book "Polostan". This is the first installment in a monumental new series called Bomb Light - an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.Set against the turbulent decades of the early twentieth century, Polostan is an inventive, richly detailed, and deeply entertaining historical epic from Stephenson, whose prior books include "Cryptonomicon" and "The Baroque Cycle".Our conversation host for this evening is Charles C. Mann, journalist & author of "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus" and "The Wizard and The Prophet". Mann has also given two Long Now Talks.About Neal StephensonNeal Stephenson's writing catapults the reader into his deeply imaginative, meticulously researched and captivating worlds. Crafting gripping stories across genres from cyber-punk, historical fiction, speculative and science fiction to thoughtful non-fiction writing on technology and culture, Stephenson's sharp eye and voracious intellect deliver full immersion into his narratives. A long-time friend of The Long Now Foundation, Stephenson contributed early ideas for the 10,000 Year Clock which grew into elements of his 02008 novel, "Anathem". His newest book, "Polostan", will be released on October 15, 02024.
Unlocking Innovation Together: The Power of Public-Private Partnerships | Elle Miller Long Now Foundation 2024-07-03 | 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 FrontierMike Olson - A Solar Metric ClockBen Haldeman - Expanding Life & Consciousness in the Universe Christopher Daniel - 3,000 Years of MaintenanceRose 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 PartnershipsMark Bonchek - The Longing for BelongingAndrew Warner - Interval Decennial Sneak PeekJane McGonigal - Social Simulations of Unthinkable FuturesThe 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/joinSubscribe to Long Now on YouTubeyoutube.com/@longnowSubscribe to the Long Now podcast & newsletterlongnow.org/subscribeExplore all of our Talks on longnow.orglongnow.org/talks
Expanding Life & Consciousness in the Universe | Ben Haldeman Long Now Foundation 2024-07-03 | 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 FrontierMike Olson - A Solar Metric ClockBen Haldeman - Expanding Life & Consciousness in the Universe Christopher Daniel - 3,000 Years of MaintenanceRose 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 PartnershipsMark Bonchek - The Longing for BelongingAndrew Warner - Interval Decennial Sneak PeekJane McGonigal - Social Simulations of Unthinkable FuturesThe 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/joinSubscribe to Long Now on YouTubeyoutube.com/@longnowSubscribe to the Long Now podcast & newsletterlongnow.org/subscribeExplore all of our Talks on longnow.orglongnow.org/talks
The Age of Programming Life | Andrew Hessel Long Now Foundation 2024-07-03 | 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 FrontierMike Olson - A Solar Metric ClockBen Haldeman - Expanding Life & Consciousness in the Universe Christopher Daniel - 3,000 Years of MaintenanceRose 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 PartnershipsMark Bonchek - The Longing for BelongingAndrew Warner - Interval Decennial Sneak PeekJane McGonigal - Social Simulations of Unthinkable FuturesThe 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/joinSubscribe to Long Now on YouTubeyoutube.com/@longnowSubscribe to the Long Now podcast & newsletterlongnow.org/subscribeExplore all of our Talks on longnow.orglongnow.org/talks
Cultivate the Millennium! | Dustin Bajer Long Now Foundation 2024-07-03 | 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 FrontierMike Olson - A Solar Metric ClockBen Haldeman - Expanding Life & Consciousness in the Universe Christopher Daniel - 3,000 Years of MaintenanceRose 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 PartnershipsMark Bonchek - The Longing for BelongingAndrew Warner - Interval Decennial Sneak PeekJane McGonigal - Social Simulations of Unthinkable FuturesThe 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/joinSubscribe to Long Now on YouTubeyoutube.com/@longnowSubscribe to the Long Now podcast & newsletterlongnow.org/subscribeExplore all of our Talks on longnow.orglongnow.org/talks
Social Simulations of Unthinkable Futures | Jane McGonigal Long Now Foundation 2024-07-03 | 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 FrontierMike Olson - A Solar Metric ClockBen Haldeman - Expanding Life & Consciousness in the Universe Christopher Daniel - 3,000 Years of MaintenanceRose 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 PartnershipsMark Bonchek - The Longing for BelongingAndrew Warner - Interval Decennial Sneak PeekJane McGonigal - Social Simulations of Unthinkable FuturesThe 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/joinSubscribe to Long Now on YouTubeyoutube.com/@longnowSubscribe to the Long Now podcast & newsletterlongnow.org/subscribeExplore all of our Talks on longnow.orglongnow.org/talks
Long Now Celebrates The Interval Decennial with New Long-Term Thinking Exhibition Long Now Foundation 2024-07-03 | Long Now Senior Project Manager Andrew Warner provides a sneak preview of the new long-term thinking exhibition launching later this year to celebrate The Interval Decennial, ten years of Long Now's acclaimed bar, cafe, and event space in San Francisco. Andrew will share details about the new exhibits and how we hope they will inspire the 30,000 people who visit The Interval each year to make long-term thinking and responsibility a deeper part of their daily lives.Filmed as part of the 02024 Long Now Ignite Talks.This event is part of Long Now Talks, a series launched in 02003 by Stewart Brand to explore compelling ideas about long-term thinking from speakers around the world.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 work began with The Clock of the Long Now, an immense mechanical monument, installed in a mountain, designed to keep accurate time for the next ten millennia.For the last two decades, Long Now Talks has invited speakers to explore their work in the context of the next and last 10,000 years for a live audience and for millions online around the globe. Long Now Talks are recorded live in San Francisco, many of them at The Interval, our public gathering space. Featuring craft cocktails, artisan coffee and tea, a library that stretches from floor to ceiling, and prototypes of The Clock of the Long Now, our space aims to inspire curiosity and wonder.You can support these Talks by becoming a Long Now member:longnow.org/joinOur global membership program connects over 11,000 people across more than 65 countries to our library of long-term thinking. Long Now members actively support long-term thinking and help us deliver Long Now Talks as videos and podcasts to over 19 million people and counting around the world. Subscribe to Long Now on YouTube / @longnow Subscribe to the Long Now podcast & newsletterlongnow.org/subscribeExplore all of our Talks on longnow.orglongnow.org/talks
A Protopian Frontier | Jenny Johnston Long Now Foundation 2024-07-03 | Visit farfutures.horizon2045.org to learn more. 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 FrontierMike Olson - A Solar Metric ClockBen Haldeman - Expanding Life & Consciousness in the Universe Christopher Daniel - 3,000 Years of MaintenanceRose 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 PartnershipsMark Bonchek - The Longing for BelongingAndrew Warner - Interval Decennial Sneak PeekJane McGonigal - Social Simulations of Unthinkable FuturesThe 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/joinSubscribe to Long Now on YouTubeyoutube.com/@longnowSubscribe to the Long Now podcast & newsletterlongnow.org/subscribeExplore all of our Talks on longnow.orglongnow.org/talks
The Longing for Belonging | Mark Bonchek Long Now Foundation 2024-07-03 | 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 FrontierMike Olson - A Solar Metric ClockBen Haldeman - Expanding Life & Consciousness in the Universe Christopher Daniel - 3,000 Years of MaintenanceRose 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 PartnershipsMark Bonchek - The Longing for BelongingAndrew Warner - Interval Decennial Sneak PeekJane McGonigal - Social Simulations of Unthinkable FuturesThe 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/joinSubscribe to Long Now on YouTubeyoutube.com/@longnowSubscribe to the Long Now podcast & newsletterlongnow.org/subscribeExplore all of our Talks on longnow.orglongnow.org/talks
A Solar Metric Clock | Mike Olson Long Now Foundation 2024-07-03 | 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 FrontierMike Olson - A Solar Metric ClockBen Haldeman - Expanding Life & Consciousness in the Universe Christopher Daniel - 3,000 Years of MaintenanceRose 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 PartnershipsMark Bonchek - The Longing for BelongingAndrew Warner - Interval Decennial Sneak PeekJane McGonigal - Social Simulations of Unthinkable FuturesThe 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/joinSubscribe to Long Now on YouTubeyoutube.com/@longnowSubscribe to the Long Now podcast & newsletterlongnow.org/subscribeExplore all of our Talks on longnow.orglongnow.org/talks
What is Plurality? | Rose Bloomin Long Now Foundation 2024-07-02 | 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 FrontierMike Olson - A Solar Metric ClockBen Haldeman - Expanding Life & Consciousness in the Universe Christopher Daniel - 3,000 Years of MaintenanceRose 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 PartnershipsMark Bonchek - The Longing for BelongingAndrew Warner - Interval Decennial Sneak PeekJane McGonigal - Social Simulations of Unthinkable FuturesThe 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/joinSubscribe to Long Now on YouTubeyoutube.com/@longnowSubscribe to the Long Now podcast & newsletterlongnow.org/subscribeExplore all of our Talks on longnow.orglongnow.org/talks
3,000 Years of Maintenance | Christopher Daniel Long Now Foundation 2024-07-02 | 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 FrontierMike Olson - A Solar Metric ClockBen Haldeman - Expanding Life & Consciousness in the Universe Christopher Daniel - 3,000 Years of MaintenanceRose 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 PartnershipsMark Bonchek - The Longing for BelongingAndrew Warner - Interval Decennial Sneak PeekJane McGonigal - Social Simulations of Unthinkable FuturesThe 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/joinSubscribe to Long Now on YouTubeyoutube.com/@longnowSubscribe to the Long Now podcast & newsletterlongnow.org/subscribeExplore all of our Talks on longnow.orglongnow.org/talks
Long Now Ignite Talks 02024 | Members of Long Now Long Now Foundation 2024-06-24 | 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 FrontierMike Olson - A Solar Metric ClockBen Haldeman - Expanding Life & Consciousness in the Universe Christopher Daniel - 3,000 Years of MaintenanceRose 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 PartnershipsMark Bonchek - The Longing for BelongingAndrew Warner - Interval Decennial Sneak PeekJane McGonigal - Social Simulations of Unthinkable FuturesThe 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/joinSubscribe to Long Now on YouTubeyoutube.com/@longnowSubscribe to the Long Now podcast & newsletterlongnow.org/subscribeExplore all of our Talks on longnow.orglongnow.org/talks
Long Now Ignite Talks 02024 Long Now Foundation 2024-05-30 | With thousands of members from all around the world, the Long Now community has a wide range of perspectives, stories, and experiences to offer. We're excited to showcase our annual curated set of short Ignite Talks created and given by the Long Now Members themselves. Presenting on the subjects of their choice, speakers have precisely 5 minutes to amuse, educate, enlighten, or inspire the audience.Join us in-person and online for a fun and fast-paced event full of surprising and thoughtful ideas. More than 12,000 people across 65+ countries are members of The Long Now Foundation. Our membership includes students, CEOs, writers, scientists, parents, politicians, musicians, artists, naturalists, journalists, professionals, farmers, explorers, astronauts and more.The Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility and we are entirely supported by donors and members. Membership connects you to a whole world of ideas, people and projects working to make a better
New Worlds, New Words | Alicia Escott & Heidi Quante Long Now Foundation 2024-05-02 | Interdisciplinary artists Alicia Escott & Heidi Quante share the origin of The Bureau of Linguistical Reality: a changing environment and the feelings that followed for which there were no words.From the Long Now Talk, “The Bureau of Linguistical Reality Performance Lecture” by Alicia Escott & Heidi Quante. Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/ZKIyyADx-0oThe Bureau of Linguistical Reality is a participatory artwork facilitated by artist Alicia Escott and Heidi Quante which collaborates with the public to create new words for feelings and experiences for which no words yet exist. Recognizing the climate crisis is causing new feelings and experiences that have yet to be named, the project was created with a deep focus on these and other Anthropocenic phenomena. The Bureau views the words created in this process as also serving as points of connectivity: advancing understanding, dialogue, and conversations about the greater concepts these words seek to codify.This evening will include an intimate sharing of our findings from our decade long social art practice as well as a Word Making Field Session where Escott and Quante will collaborate with participants to collectively coin a term together.Participants are encouraged to consider in advance their personal unnamed experience(s) of our changing world as well as their unique feelings for which they wish there was a word. Participants are encouraged to bring the diversity of their linguistic backgrounds to this conversation as the Bureau creates neologisms in all languages.Alicia Escott is an interdisciplinary artist whose work addresses how we are negotiating our immediate day-to-day realities and responsibilities amid an awareness of the overarching specter of climate change, mass extinction and other Anthropocenic events. Escott's work has been exhibited widely in galleries, museums, at residencies and alternative spaces. She is a founding member of 100 Days Action, and co-founded The Bureau of Linguistical Reality.Heidi Quante is an interdisciplinary artist working in the areas of environmental and human rights, both in personal practice and in larger participatory public artworks. Quante is a co-founder of The Bureau of Linguistical Reality and also founded the non-profit Creative Catalysts, which works to find innovative approaches to the pressing social and environmental challenges of our time though projects, workshops and strategic advice for artists and organizations.This event is part of Long Now Talks, a series launched in 02003 by Stewart Brand to explore compelling ideas about long-term thinking from speakers around the world.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 work began with The Clock of the Long Now, an immense mechanical monument, installed in a mountain, designed to keep accurate time for the next ten millennia.For the last two decades, Long Now Talks has invited speakers to explore their work in the context of the next and last 10,000 years for a live audience and for millions online around the globe. Long Now Talks are recorded live in San Francisco, many of them at The Interval, our public gathering space. Featuring craft cocktails, artisan coffee and tea, a library that stretches from floor to ceiling, and prototypes of The Clock of the Long Now, our space aims to inspire curiosity and wonder.You can support these Talks by becoming a Long Now member:longnow.org/joinOur global membership program connects over 11,000 people across more than 65 countries to our library of long-term thinking. Long Now members actively support long-term thinking and help us deliver Long Now Talks as videos and podcasts to over 19 million people and counting around the world. Subscribe to Long Now on YouTubeyoutube.com/@longnowSubscribe to the Long Now podcast & newsletterlongnow.org/subscribeExplore all of our Talks on longnow.orglongnow.org/talks
The Bureau of Linguistical Reality Performance Lecture | Alicia Escott & Heidi Quante Long Now Foundation 2024-04-29 | The Bureau of Linguistical Reality is a participatory artwork facilitated by artist Alicia Escott and Heidi Quante which collaborates with the public to create new words for feelings and experiences for which no words yet exist. Recognizing the climate crisis is causing new feelings and experiences that have yet to be named, the project was created with a deep focus on these and other Anthropocenic phenomena. The Bureau views the words created in this process as also serving as points of connectivity: advancing understanding, dialogue, and conversations about the greater concepts these words seek to codify.This evening will include an intimate sharing of our findings from our decade long social art practice as well as a Word Making Field Session where Escott and Quante will collaborate with participants to collectively coin a term together.Participants are encouraged to consider in advance their personal unnamed experience(s) of our changing world as well as their unique feelings for which they wish there was a word. Participants are encouraged to bring the diversity of their linguistic backgrounds to this conversation as the Bureau creates neologisms in all languages.Alicia Escott is an interdisciplinary artist whose work addresses how we are negotiating our immediate day-to-day realities and responsibilities amid an awareness of the overarching specter of climate change, mass extinction and other Anthropocenic events. Escott's work has been exhibited widely in galleries, museums, at residencies and alternative spaces. She is a founding member of 100 Days Action, and co-founded The Bureau of Linguistical Reality.Heidi Quante is an interdisciplinary artist working in the areas of environmental and human rights, both in personal practice and in larger participatory public artworks. Quante is a co-founder of The Bureau of Linguistical Reality and also founded the non-profit Creative Catalysts, which works to find innovative approaches to the pressing social and environmental challenges of our time though projects, workshops and strategic advice for artists and organizations.This event is part of Long Now Talks, a series launched in 02003 by Stewart Brand to explore compelling ideas about long-term thinking from speakers around the world.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 work began with The Clock of the Long Now, an immense mechanical monument, installed in a mountain, designed to keep accurate time for the next ten millennia.For the last two decades, Long Now Talks has invited speakers to explore their work in the context of the next and last 10,000 years for a live audience and for millions online around the globe. Long Now Talks are recorded live in San Francisco, many of them at The Interval, our public gathering space. Featuring craft cocktails, artisan coffee and tea, a library that stretches from floor to ceiling, and prototypes of The Clock of the Long Now, our space aims to inspire curiosity and wonder.You can support these Talks by becoming a Long Now member:longnow.org/joinOur global membership program connects over 11,000 people across more than 65 countries to our library of long-term thinking. Long Now members actively support long-term thinking and help us deliver Long Now Talks as videos and podcasts to over 19 million people and counting around the world. Subscribe to Long Now on YouTubeyoutube.com/@longnowSubscribe to the Long Now podcast & newsletterlongnow.org/subscribeExplore all of our Talks on longnow.orglongnow.org/talks
Land Back | Jonathan Cordero Long Now Foundation 2024-04-26 | Executive Director of the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone Jonathan Cordero explains some of the complexities of returning land back to native communities.From the Long Now Talk, “Indigenous Sovereign Futures” by Jonathan Cordero. Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/iuMwW-KGJgMAlternative visions for social change rooted in the frameworks of capitalism and colonialism only reproduce contemporary structures of power. How can indigenous perspectives and knowledge inform the structural transformation necessary to improve the health of the natural world and of human communities?Dr. Cordero will discuss how indigenous epistemologies challenge the ideas and practices related to capitalism and colonialism and how the enhancement of indigeneity and sovereignty are critical to the maintenance of indigenous epistemologies. Insights drawn from the discourses on decolonization, settler colonialism, and epistemicide will be revealed throughout the presentation. Last, Dr. Cordero will share how indigenous perspectives and knowledge inspire work of the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone.Jonathan Cordero, Ph.D. (Ramaytush Ohlone/Chumash) is Executive Director of the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone and Visiting Scholar in the Spatial Sciences Institute at USC. In addition, Dr. Cordero serves as co-editor of the forthcoming Critical Mission Studies Handbook with UC Press. He is a leader, speaker, and activist in the broader Ohlone and Chumash communities, especially in the arts. As an indigenous scholar, Dr. Cordero’s work centers indigeneity and sovereignty as they relate to the ideas and practices related to colonialism and to indigenous cultural continuance.This event is part of Long Now Talks, a series launched in 02003 by Stewart Brand to explore compelling ideas about long-term thinking from speakers around the world.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 work began with The Clock of the Long Now, an immense mechanical monument, installed in a mountain, designed to keep accurate time for the next ten millennia.For the last two decades, Long Now Talks has invited speakers to explore their work in the context of the next and last 10,000 years for a live audience and for millions online around the globe. Long Now Talks are recorded live in San Francisco, many of them at The Interval, our public gathering space. Featuring craft cocktails, artisan coffee and tea, a library that stretches from floor to ceiling, and prototypes of The Clock of the Long Now, our space aims to inspire curiosity and wonder.You can support these Talks by becoming a Long Now member:longnow.org/joinOur global membership program connects over 11,000 people across more than 65 countries to our library of long-term thinking. Long Now members actively support long-term thinking and help us deliver Long Now Talks as videos and podcasts to over 19 million people and counting around the world. Subscribe to Long Now on YouTubeyoutube.com/@longnowSubscribe to the Long Now podcast & newsletterlongnow.org/subscribeExplore all of our Talks on longnow.orglongnow.org/talks
What is Indigeneity? | Jonathan Cordero Long Now Foundation 2024-04-25 | Executive Director of the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone Jonathan Cordero defines the concept of Indigeneity.From the Long Now Talk, “Indigenous Sovereign Futures” by Jonathan Cordero. Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/iuMwW-KGJgMAlternative visions for social change rooted in the frameworks of capitalism and colonialism only reproduce contemporary structures of power. How can indigenous perspectives and knowledge inform the structural transformation necessary to improve the health of the natural world and of human communities?Dr. Cordero will discuss how indigenous epistemologies challenge the ideas and practices related to capitalism and colonialism and how the enhancement of indigeneity and sovereignty are critical to the maintenance of indigenous epistemologies. Insights drawn from the discourses on decolonization, settler colonialism, and epistemicide will be revealed throughout the presentation. Last, Dr. Cordero will share how indigenous perspectives and knowledge inspire work of the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone.Jonathan Cordero, Ph.D. (Ramaytush Ohlone/Chumash) is Executive Director of the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone and Visiting Scholar in the Spatial Sciences Institute at USC. In addition, Dr. Cordero serves as co-editor of the forthcoming Critical Mission Studies Handbook with UC Press. He is a leader, speaker, and activist in the broader Ohlone and Chumash communities, especially in the arts. As an indigenous scholar, Dr. Cordero’s work centers indigeneity and sovereignty as they relate to the ideas and practices related to colonialism and to indigenous cultural continuance.This event is part of Long Now Talks, a series launched in 02003 by Stewart Brand to explore compelling ideas about long-term thinking from speakers around the world.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 work began with The Clock of the Long Now, an immense mechanical monument, installed in a mountain, designed to keep accurate time for the next ten millennia.For the last two decades, Long Now Talks has invited speakers to explore their work in the context of the next and last 10,000 years for a live audience and for millions online around the globe. Long Now Talks are recorded live in San Francisco, many of them at The Interval, our public gathering space. Featuring craft cocktails, artisan coffee and tea, a library that stretches from floor to ceiling, and prototypes of The Clock of the Long Now, our space aims to inspire curiosity and wonder.You can support these Talks by becoming a Long Now member:longnow.org/joinOur global membership program connects over 11,000 people across more than 65 countries to our library of long-term thinking. Long Now members actively support long-term thinking and help us deliver Long Now Talks as videos and podcasts to over 19 million people and counting around the world. Subscribe to Long Now on YouTubeyoutube.com/@longnowSubscribe to the Long Now podcast & newsletterlongnow.org/subscribeExplore all of our Talks on longnow.orglongnow.org/talks
Native Lifeways | Jonathan Cordero Long Now Foundation 2024-04-24 | Executive Director of the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone Jonathan Cordero outlines the essential differences between an Indigenous worldview and a non-Indigenous worldview.From the Long Now Talk, “Indigenous Sovereign Futures” by Jonathan Cordero. Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/iuMwW-KGJgMAlternative visions for social change rooted in the frameworks of capitalism and colonialism only reproduce contemporary structures of power. How can indigenous perspectives and knowledge inform the structural transformation necessary to improve the health of the natural world and of human communities?Dr. Cordero will discuss how indigenous epistemologies challenge the ideas and practices related to capitalism and colonialism and how the enhancement of indigeneity and sovereignty are critical to the maintenance of indigenous epistemologies. Insights drawn from the discourses on decolonization, settler colonialism, and epistemicide will be revealed throughout the presentation. Last, Dr. Cordero will share how indigenous perspectives and knowledge inspire work of the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone.Jonathan Cordero, Ph.D. (Ramaytush Ohlone/Chumash) is Executive Director of the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone and Visiting Scholar in the Spatial Sciences Institute at USC. In addition, Dr. Cordero serves as co-editor of the forthcoming Critical Mission Studies Handbook with UC Press. He is a leader, speaker, and activist in the broader Ohlone and Chumash communities, especially in the arts. As an indigenous scholar, Dr. Cordero’s work centers indigeneity and sovereignty as they relate to the ideas and practices related to colonialism and to indigenous cultural continuance.This event is part of Long Now Talks, a series launched in 02003 by Stewart Brand to explore compelling ideas about long-term thinking from speakers around the world.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 work began with The Clock of the Long Now, an immense mechanical monument, installed in a mountain, designed to keep accurate time for the next ten millennia.For the last two decades, Long Now Talks has invited speakers to explore their work in the context of the next and last 10,000 years for a live audience and for millions online around the globe. Long Now Talks are recorded live in San Francisco, many of them at The Interval, our public gathering space. Featuring craft cocktails, artisan coffee and tea, a library that stretches from floor to ceiling, and prototypes of The Clock of the Long Now, our space aims to inspire curiosity and wonder.You can support these Talks by becoming a Long Now member:longnow.org/joinOur global membership program connects over 11,000 people across more than 65 countries to our library of long-term thinking. Long Now members actively support long-term thinking and help us deliver Long Now Talks as videos and podcasts to over 19 million people and counting around the world. Subscribe to Long Now on YouTubeyoutube.com/@longnowSubscribe to the Long Now podcast & newsletterlongnow.org/subscribeExplore all of our Talks on longnow.orglongnow.org/talks
Indigenous Sovereign Futures | Jonathan Cordero Long Now Foundation 2024-04-19 | Alternative visions for social change rooted in the frameworks of capitalism and colonialism only reproduce contemporary structures of power. How can indigenous perspectives and knowledge inform the structural transformation necessary to improve the health of the natural world and of human communities?Dr. Cordero will discuss how indigenous epistemologies challenge the ideas and practices related to capitalism and colonialism and how the enhancement of indigeneity and sovereignty are critical to the maintenance of indigenous epistemologies. Insights drawn from the discourses on decolonization, settler colonialism, and epistemicide will be revealed throughout the presentation. Last, Dr. Cordero will share how indigenous perspectives and knowledge inspire work of the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone.Jonathan Cordero, Ph.D. (Ramaytush Ohlone/Chumash) is Executive Director of the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone and Visiting Scholar in the Spatial Sciences Institute at USC. In addition, Dr. Cordero serves as co-editor of the forthcoming Critical Mission Studies Handbook with UC Press. He is a leader, speaker, and activist in the broader Ohlone and Chumash communities, especially in the arts. As an indigenous scholar, Dr. Cordero’s work centers indigeneity and sovereignty as they relate to the ideas and practices related to colonialism and to indigenous cultural continuance.This event is part of Long Now Talks, a series launched in 02003 by Stewart Brand to explore compelling ideas about long-term thinking from speakers around the world.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 work began with The Clock of the Long Now, an immense mechanical monument, installed in a mountain, designed to keep accurate time for the next ten millennia.For the last two decades, Long Now Talks has invited speakers to explore their work in the context of the next and last 10,000 years for a live audience and for millions online around the globe. Long Now Talks are recorded live in San Francisco, many of them at The Interval, our public gathering space. Featuring craft cocktails, artisan coffee and tea, a library that stretches from floor to ceiling, and prototypes of The Clock of the Long Now, our space aims to inspire curiosity and wonder.You can support these Talks by becoming a Long Now member:longnow.org/joinOur global membership program connects over 11,000 people across more than 65 countries to our library of long-term thinking. Long Now members actively support long-term thinking and help us deliver Long Now Talks as videos and podcasts to over 19 million people and counting around the world. Subscribe to Long Now on YouTubeyoutube.com/@longnowSubscribe to the Long Now podcast & newsletterlongnow.org/subscribeExplore all of our Talks on longnow.orglongnow.org/talks
Alicia Escott and Heidi Quante | The Bureau of Linguistical Reality Performance Lecture Long Now Foundation 2024-03-13 | The Bureau of Linguistical Reality is a participatory artwork facilitated by artist Alicia Escott and Heidi Quante which collaborates with the public to create new words for feelings and experiences for which no words yet exist. Recognizing the climate crisis is causing new feelings and experiences that have yet to be named, the project was created with a deep focus on these and other Anthropocenic phenomena. The Bureau views the words created in this process as also serving as points of connectivity: advancing understanding, dialogue, and conversations about the greater concepts these words seek to codify.This evening will include an intimate sharing of our findings from our decade long social art practice as well as a Word Making Field Session where Escott and Quante will collaborate with participants to collectively coin a term together.Participants are encouraged to consider in advance their personal unnamed experience(s) of our changing world as well as their unique feelings for which they wish there was a word. Participants are encouraged to bring the diversity of their linguistic backgrounds to this conversation as the Bureau creates neologisms in all languages.Alicia Escott is an interdisciplinary artist whose work addresses how we are negotiating our immediate day-to-day realities and responsibilities amid an awareness of the overarching specter of climate change, mass extinction and other Anthropocenic events. Escott's work has been exhibited widely in galleries, museums, at residencies and alternative spaces. She is a founding member of 100 Days Action, and co-founded The Bureau of Linguistically Reality.Heidi Quante is an interdisciplinary artist working in the areas of environmental and human rights, both in personal practice and in larger participatory public artworks. Quante is a co-founder of The Bureau of Linguistically Reality and also founded the non-profit Creative Catalysts, which works to find innovative approaches to the pressing social and environmental challenges of our time though projects, workshops and strategic advice for artists and organizations.
Market Economies and The State | Denise Hearn Long Now Foundation 2024-03-07 | Writer, applied researcher, & advisor Denise Hearn emphasizes how the "invisible hand" of the "free market" is a construct of an organized, governed society.From the Long Now Talk, “Embodied Economies: How our Economic Stories Shape the World ” by Denise Hearn. Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/hN3cUwbmeZkEconomic policy can seem abstract and distant, but it manifests the physical world – affecting us all. Our economic stories shape our systems, and they in turn shape us. What myths continue to constrain us, and how might new stories emerge to scaffold the future? This talk will explore concepts we often take as gospel: profits, competition, economic value, efficiency, and others -- and asks how we might reshape them to better serve planetary flourishing –today, and well into the future.Denise Hearn is a writer, applied researcher, and advisor focused on how economic power and paradigms shape our world. Hearn holds an MBA from Oxford Saïd Business School and advises governments, financial institutions, companies, and nonprofits on antitrust, economic policy, and new economic thinking. Hearn is currently a Resident Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and co-authored The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition (02018) with Jonathan Tepper.Hearn's work is published in The Financial Times, The Globe and Mail, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Bloomberg, and The Washington Post and she currently writes the Embodied Economics newsletter. Hearn is also Advisory Board Chair of The Predistribution Initiative — a multi-stakeholder project to improve investment structures and practices to address systemic risks like inequality, biodiversity loss, and climate change.This event is part of the Long Now Talks series, started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's most interesting thinkers.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 work began with The Clock of the Long Now, an immense mechanical monument, installed in a mountain, designed to keep accurate time for the next 10,000 years.Each month our Talks series invite a speaker to explore their work in the context of the next and last 10,000 years. The Talks are recorded live in San Francisco, many of them at The Interval, our public gathering space. Featuring craft cocktails, artisan coffee and tea, a library that stretches from floor to ceiling, and prototypes of The Clock of the Long Now, our space aims to inspire curiosity and wonder.You can support these Talks by becoming a Long Now member:www.longnow.org/joinOur global membership program connects over 11,000 individuals across more than 65 countries to a whole world of long-term thinking. Members hear about upcoming speakers first and can reserve two free tickets to attend in-person.We also release each Talk as a carefully produced video and podcast:Subscribe to Long Now on YouTubeSubscribe to the Long Now Talks podcastSubscribe to the Long Now NewsletterExplore all of our Talks on longnow.org
Debt, Credit, & Profit in History | Denise Hearn Long Now Foundation 2024-03-06 | Writer, applied researcher, & advisor Denise Hearn highlights how in the long history of economics, the concept of profit is relatively new.From the Long Now Talk, “Embodied Economies: How our Economic Stories Shape the World ” by Denise Hearn. Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/hN3cUwbmeZkEconomic policy can seem abstract and distant, but it manifests the physical world – affecting us all. Our economic stories shape our systems, and they in turn shape us. What myths continue to constrain us, and how might new stories emerge to scaffold the future? This talk will explore concepts we often take as gospel: profits, competition, economic value, efficiency, and others -- and asks how we might reshape them to better serve planetary flourishing –today, and well into the future.Denise Hearn is a writer, applied researcher, and advisor focused on how economic power and paradigms shape our world. Hearn holds an MBA from Oxford Saïd Business School and advises governments, financial institutions, companies, and nonprofits on antitrust, economic policy, and new economic thinking. Hearn is currently a Resident Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and co-authored The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition (02018) with Jonathan Tepper.Hearn's work is published in The Financial Times, The Globe and Mail, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Bloomberg, and The Washington Post and she currently writes the Embodied Economics newsletter. Hearn is also Advisory Board Chair of The Predistribution Initiative — a multi-stakeholder project to improve investment structures and practices to address systemic risks like inequality, biodiversity loss, and climate change.This event is part of the Long Now Talks series, started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's most interesting thinkers.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 work began with The Clock of the Long Now, an immense mechanical monument, installed in a mountain, designed to keep accurate time for the next 10,000 years.Each month our Talks series invite a speaker to explore their work in the context of the next and last 10,000 years. The Talks are recorded live in San Francisco, many of them at The Interval, our public gathering space. Featuring craft cocktails, artisan coffee and tea, a library that stretches from floor to ceiling, and prototypes of The Clock of the Long Now, our space aims to inspire curiosity and wonder.You can support these Talks by becoming a Long Now member:www.longnow.org/joinOur global membership program connects over 11,000 individuals across more than 65 countries to a whole world of long-term thinking. Members hear about upcoming speakers first and can reserve two free tickets to attend in-person.We also release each Talk as a carefully produced video and podcast:Subscribe to Long Now on YouTubeSubscribe to the Long Now Talks podcastSubscribe to the Long Now NewsletterExplore all of our Talks on longnow.org
Embodied Economies: How our Economic Stories Shape the World | Denise Hearn Long Now Foundation 2024-03-01 | Economic policy can seem abstract and distant, but it manifests the physical world – affecting us all. Our economic stories shape our systems, and they in turn shape us. What myths continue to constrain us, and how might new stories emerge to scaffold the future? This talk will explore concepts we often take as gospel: profits, competition, economic value, efficiency, and others -- and asks how we might reshape them to better serve planetary flourishing –today, and well into the future.Denise Hearn is a writer, applied researcher, and advisor focused on how economic power and paradigms shape our world. Hearn holds an MBA from Oxford Saïd Business School and advises governments, financial institutions, companies, and nonprofits on antitrust, economic policy, and new economic thinking. Hearn is currently a Resident Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and co-authored The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition (02018) with Jonathan Tepper.Hearn's work is published in The Financial Times, The Globe and Mail, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Bloomberg, and The Washington Post and she currently writes the Embodied Economics newsletter. Hearn is also Advisory Board Chair of The Predistribution Initiative — a multi-stakeholder project to improve investment structures and practices to address systemic risks like inequality, biodiversity loss, and climate change.This event is part of Long Now Talks, a series launched in 02003 by Stewart Brand to explore compelling ideas about long-term thinking from speakers around the world.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 work began with The Clock of the Long Now, an immense mechanical monument, installed in a mountain, designed to keep accurate time for the next ten millennia.For the last two decades, Long Now Talks has invited speakers to explore their work in the context of the next and last 10,000 years for a live audience and for millions online around the globe. Long Now Talks are recorded live in San Francisco, many of them at The Interval, our public gathering space. Featuring craft cocktails, artisan coffee and tea, a library that stretches from floor to ceiling, and prototypes of The Clock of the Long Now, our space aims to inspire curiosity and wonder.You can support these Talks by becoming a Long Now member:longnow.org/joinOur global membership program connects over 11,000 people across more than 65 countries to our library of long-term thinking. Long Now members actively support long-term thinking and help us deliver Long Now Talks as videos and podcasts to over 19 million people and counting around the world. Subscribe to Long Now on YouTubeyoutube.com/@longnowSubscribe to the Long Now podcast & newsletterlongnow.org/subscribeExplore all of our Talks on longnow.orglongnow.org/talks
Denise Hearn | Embodied Economies: How our Economic Stories Shape the World Long Now Foundation 2024-01-24 | Economic policy can seem abstract and distant, but it manifests the physical world – affecting us all. Our economic stories shape our systems, and they in turn shape us. What myths continue to constrain us, and how might new stories emerge to scaffold the future? This talk will explore concepts we often take as gospel: profits, competition, economic value, efficiency, and others -- and asks how we might reshape them to better serve planetary flourishing –today, and well into the future.Denise Hearn is a writer, applied researcher, and advisor focused on how economic power and paradigms shape our world. Hearn holds an MBA from Oxford Saïd Business School and advises governments, financial institutions, companies, and nonprofits on antitrust, economic policy, and new economic thinking. Hearn is currently a Resident Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and co-authored "The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition" (02018) with Jonathan Tepper.Hearn's work is published in "The Financial Times", "The Globe and Mail", "Stanford Social Innovation Review", "Bloomberg", and "The Washington Post" and she currently writes the Embodied Economics newsletter. Hearn is also Advisory Board Chair of The Predistribution Initiative — a multi-stakeholder project to improve investment structures and practices to address systemic risks like inequality, biodiversity loss, and climate change.
Personification of Trees | Jared Farmer Long Now Foundation 2024-01-19 | Historian Jared Farmer shares his nuanced perspective on how humans personify trees.From the Long Now Talk, “Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees” by Jared Farmer.Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/aRaOCVHcMXA"What really interests me is how long-lived plants allow humans to think about—and emotionally relate to—long units of time. They provide a bridge between human time and geological time." -- Jared FarmerJoin us for an evening with geohumanist and historian Jared Farmer, who will share his multi-faceted approach to understanding our human relationship with trees over millennia. From ancient stories, as objects of reverence, named individuals and clonal organisms, sources of wealth in ancient and modern times, the lungs of the planet and the wood wide web - trees are deeply interwoven with our histories, cultures and growing scientific understanding of our complex global ecosystem. Farmer reflects on our long-term relationships with long-lived trees, and considers the future of oldness on a rapidly changing planet.Jared Farmer is a geohumanist and place-based historian. Farmer is a Professor of History at Penn, studying landscapes and environments from the hyperlocal to the planetary, with emphasis on the nineteenth century in the American West. His book include Trees in Paradise: A California History (02013), and Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees (02022)."Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees" was given on November 14, 02023 as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminar series. The series was started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's leading thinkers. The Seminars take place in San Francisco and are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand. To follow the talks, you can:Subscribe to our podcasts: longnow.org/seminars/podcastExplore the full series: theinterval.org/salon-talksMore ideas on long-term thinking: blog.longnow.orgThe Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions.Become a Long Now member to support this series, join our community, and connect with our ongoing work to explore and deepen long-term thinking: longnow.org/membershipLike us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/longnowFollow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/longnowSubscribe to our channel: www.youtube.com/longnow
Saving Trees for the Right Reasons | Jared Farmer Long Now Foundation 2024-01-18 | Historian Jared Farmer and Long Now Foundation's Andrew Warner explore a few ways in which relationships between human society and trees can be somewhat problematic.From the Long Now Talk, “Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees” by Jared Farmer.Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/aRaOCVHcMXA"What really interests me is how long-lived plants allow humans to think about—and emotionally relate to—long units of time. They provide a bridge between human time and geological time." -- Jared FarmerJoin us for an evening with geohumanist and historian Jared Farmer, who will share his multi-faceted approach to understanding our human relationship with trees over millennia. From ancient stories, as objects of reverence, named individuals and clonal organisms, sources of wealth in ancient and modern times, the lungs of the planet and the wood wide web - trees are deeply interwoven with our histories, cultures and growing scientific understanding of our complex global ecosystem. Farmer reflects on our long-term relationships with long-lived trees, and considers the future of oldness on a rapidly changing planet.Jared Farmer is a geohumanist and place-based historian. Farmer is a Professor of History at Penn, studying landscapes and environments from the hyperlocal to the planetary, with emphasis on the nineteenth century in the American West. His book include Trees in Paradise: A California History (02013), and Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees (02022)."Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees" was given on November 14, 02023 as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminar series. The series was started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's leading thinkers. The Seminars take place in San Francisco and are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand. To follow the talks, you can:Subscribe to our podcasts: longnow.org/seminars/podcastExplore the full series: theinterval.org/salon-talksMore ideas on long-term thinking: blog.longnow.orgThe Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions.Become a Long Now member to support this series, join our community, and connect with our ongoing work to explore and deepen long-term thinking: longnow.org/membershipLike us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/longnowFollow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/longnowSubscribe to our channel: www.youtube.com/longnow
Trees and Climate Change | Jared Farmer Long Now Foundation 2024-01-17 | Historian Jared Farmer grounds sensationalist discourse around climate change and trees by looking through the lens of Deep Time.From the Long Now Talk, “Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees” by Jared Farmer.Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/aRaOCVHcMXA"What really interests me is how long-lived plants allow humans to think about—and emotionally relate to—long units of time. They provide a bridge between human time and geological time." -- Jared FarmerJoin us for an evening with geohumanist and historian Jared Farmer, who will share his multi-faceted approach to understanding our human relationship with trees over millennia. From ancient stories, as objects of reverence, named individuals and clonal organisms, sources of wealth in ancient and modern times, the lungs of the planet and the wood wide web - trees are deeply interwoven with our histories, cultures and growing scientific understanding of our complex global ecosystem. Farmer reflects on our long-term relationships with long-lived trees, and considers the future of oldness on a rapidly changing planet.Jared Farmer is a geohumanist and place-based historian. Farmer is a Professor of History at Penn, studying landscapes and environments from the hyperlocal to the planetary, with emphasis on the nineteenth century in the American West. His book include Trees in Paradise: A California History (02013), and Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees (02022)."Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees" was given on November 14, 02023 as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminar series. The series was started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's leading thinkers. The Seminars take place in San Francisco and are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand. To follow the talks, you can:Subscribe to our podcasts: longnow.org/seminars/podcastExplore the full series: theinterval.org/salon-talksMore ideas on long-term thinking: blog.longnow.orgThe Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions.Become a Long Now member to support this series, join our community, and connect with our ongoing work to explore and deepen long-term thinking: longnow.org/membershipLike us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/longnowFollow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/longnowSubscribe to our channel: www.youtube.com/longnow
Manipulation of Memory | Abby Smith Rumsey Long Now Foundation 2024-01-08 | Author and historian Abby Smith Rumsey highlights how the fabric of our society is only as strong, or as weak, as the threads of our individual and collective memories.From the Long Now Seminar, “Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures” by Abby Smith Rumsey.Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/hNhjICIrMakAs authoritarianism continues to rise around the world, the stories we tell ourselves about our collective history become a battleground for competing visions of the future. Drawing extensively from Russian history in the 20th century, Rumsey offers a framework to discuss our current social and political tensions and how our increasing polarization could shape our future.This Long Now Talk is presented in partnership with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. CASBS brings together deep thinkers from diverse disciplines and communities to advance understanding of the full range of human beliefs, behaviors, interactions, and institutions. A leading incubator of human-centered knowledge, CASBS facilitates collaborations across academia, policy, industry, civil society, and government to collectively design a better future.Abby Smith Rumsey is a writer and historian focusing on the creation, preservation, and use of the cultural record in all media. She has worked with the Library of Congress and the National Science Foundation, taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins University and is currently the board chair of CASBS at Stanford. Her books include Memory, Edited: Taking Liberties with History (02023) and When We Are No More, How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future (02016)."Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures" was given on October 10, 02023 as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminar series. The series was started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's leading thinkers. The Seminars take place in San Francisco and are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand. To follow the talks, you can:Subscribe to our podcasts: longnow.org/seminars/podcastExplore the full series: theinterval.org/salon-talksMore ideas on long-term thinking: blog.longnow.orgThe Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions.Become a Long Now member to support this series, join our community, and connect with our ongoing work to explore and deepen long-term thinking: longnow.org/membershipLike us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/longnowFollow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/longnowSubscribe to our channel: www.youtube.com/longnow
Trees and Long-term Thinking | Jared Farmer Long Now Foundation 2024-01-05 | Historian Jared Farmer illuminates ways in which trees are living symbols for long-term thinking.From the Long Now Talk, “Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees” by Jared Farmer.Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/aRaOCVHcMXA"What really interests me is how long-lived plants allow humans to think about—and emotionally relate to—long units of time. They provide a bridge between human time and geological time." -- Jared FarmerJoin us for an evening with geohumanist and historian Jared Farmer, who will share his multi-faceted approach to understanding our human relationship with trees over millennia. From ancient stories, as objects of reverence, named individuals and clonal organisms, sources of wealth in ancient and modern times, the lungs of the planet and the wood wide web - trees are deeply interwoven with our histories, cultures and growing scientific understanding of our complex global ecosystem. Farmer reflects on our long-term relationships with long-lived trees, and considers the future of oldness on a rapidly changing planet.Jared Farmer is a geohumanist and place-based historian. Farmer is a Professor of History at Penn, studying landscapes and environments from the hyperlocal to the planetary, with emphasis on the nineteenth century in the American West. His book include Trees in Paradise: A California History (02013), and Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees (02022)."Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees" was given on November 14, 02023 as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminar series. The series was started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's leading thinkers. The Seminars take place in San Francisco and are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand. To follow the talks, you can:Subscribe to our podcasts: longnow.org/seminars/podcastExplore the full series: theinterval.org/salon-talksMore ideas on long-term thinking: blog.longnow.orgThe Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions.Become a Long Now member to support this series, join our community, and connect with our ongoing work to explore and deepen long-term thinking: longnow.org/membershipLike us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/longnowFollow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/longnowSubscribe to our channel: www.youtube.com/longnow
LOST LANDSCAPES 02023 City and Bay in Motion: Transportation and Communication | Rick Prelinger Long Now Foundation 2023-12-12 | This year’s LOST LANDSCAPES (the 18th!) sets the Bay in motion, revolving around the myriad mobilities and means of communication that have kept Californians in touch with each other. Casting an archival gaze on San Francisco and its surrounding areas, the film revels in the textures and activities of everyday life, work and celebration, replaying known and unknown historical moments, daylighting lost and found infrastructures, revealing the scars of settlement and pointing to more hopeful futures.This year’s film is drawn from over 3,000 archival films newly scanned in the past year, including home movies, government-produced and industrial films, feature film outtakes and other surprises from the Prelinger Archives collection and elsewhere.Each year, LOST LANDSCAPES donations bring in about 25% of Prelinger Library’s annual budget. Please consider supporting this famed experimental research library, now in its 20th year, that provides access to artists, historians, community members, researchers and readers of all kinds!prelingerlibrary.org/home/supportRick Prelinger is the founder of the Prelinger Archives in San Francisco, whose moving image holdings may be found online at www.archive.org. With Megan Prelinger, he co-founded Prelinger Library, a publicly-available collection of historical periodicals, books, print ephemera, maps and government documents."LOST LANDSCAPES 02023 City and Bay in Motion: Transportation and Communication" was given on December 4, 02023 as part of Long Now's Seminar series. The series was started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's leading thinkers. The Seminars take place in San Francisco and are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand. To follow the talks, you can:Subscribe to our podcasts: http://longnow.org/seminars/podcastExplore the full series: http://longnow.org/seminarsMore ideas on long-term thinking: http://blog.longnow.orgThe Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions. Become a Long Now member to support this series, join our community, and connect with our ongoing work to explore and deepen long-term thinking: http://longnow.org/membershipLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/longnowFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/longnowSubscribe to our channel: youtube.com/longnow
Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures | Abby Smith Rumsey Long Now Foundation 2023-11-15 | As authoritarianism continues to rise around the world, the stories we tell ourselves about our collective history become a battleground for competing visions of the future. Drawing extensively from Russian history in the 20th century, Rumsey offers a framework to discuss our current social and political tensions and how our increasing polarization could shape our future.This Long Now Talk is presented in partnership with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. CASBS brings together deep thinkers from diverse disciplines and communities to advance understanding of the full range of human beliefs, behaviors, interactions, and institutions. A leading incubator of human-centered knowledge, CASBS facilitates collaborations across academia, policy, industry, civil society, and government to collectively design a better future.Abby Smith Rumsey is a writer and historian focusing on the creation, preservation, and use of the cultural record in all media. She has worked with the Library of Congress and the National Science Foundation, taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins University and is currently the board chair of CASBS at Stanford. Her books include Memory, Edited: Taking Liberties with History (02023) and When We Are No More, How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future (02016)."Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures" was given on October 10, 02023 as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminar series. The series was started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's leading thinkers. The Seminars take place in San Francisco and are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand. To follow the talks, you can:Subscribe to our podcasts: longnow.org/seminars/podcastExplore the full series: theinterval.org/salon-talksMore ideas on long-term thinking: blog.longnow.orgThe Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions.Become a Long Now member to support this series, join our community, and connect with our ongoing work to explore and deepen long-term thinking: longnow.org/membershipLike us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/longnowFollow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/longnowSubscribe to our channel: www.youtube.com/longnow
Jared Farmer | Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees Long Now Foundation 2023-11-15 | Big trees, old trees, and especially big old trees have always been objects of reverence. From Athena’s sacred olive on the Acropolis to the unmistakable ginkgo leaf prevalent in Japanese art and fashion during the Edo period, our profound admiration for slow plants spans time and place as well as cultures and religions. At the same time, the utilization and indeed the desecration of ancient trees is a common feature of history. In the modern period, the American West, more than any other region, witnessed contradictory efforts to destroy and protect ancient conifers. Historian Jared Farmer reflects on our long-term relationships with long-lived trees, and considers the future of oldness on a rapidly changing planet.Jared Farmer is a geohumanist and place-based historian. His latest book is Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees.
Arguing for the Sake of Reason | Henry Farrell Long Now Foundation 2023-11-07 | Author & Professor Henry Farrell makes the case that higher-intensity disagreements from both sides results in higher-quality arguments for both sides.From the Long Now Talk, “The Complex Aftermath of Globalization” by Henry Farrell. Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/myqaV18RDfMOver 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 vision of world politics has emerged which breaks sharply both with the old logic of the Cold War and the newer politics of globalization.The globalization bet has turned sour, but it has created a far more closely connected world than ever existed before. Problems such as climate change, economic inequality, food security, supply chain vulnerabilities, democratic weakness and mass migration emerge from the interdependent choices of people and governments in a global system without any global rulers.In a complex interdependent world, is the only way forward to accept these complexities, and try to work with them? That is the challenge that the US now faces – moving from the simple imagined futures of the past to a more entangled and realistic vision of our planet's future.This Long Now Talk is presented in partnership with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. CASBS brings together deep thinkers from diverse disciplines and communities to advance understanding of the full range of human beliefs, behaviors, interactions, and institutions. A leading incubator of human-centered knowledge, CASBS facilitates collaborations across academia, policy, industry, civil society, and government to collectively design a better future.Henry Farrell is SNF Agora Institute Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a 02022- 23 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. Farrell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and works on a variety of topics, including democracy, the politics of the Internet and international and comparative political economy. He is author of The Political Economy of Trust: Interests, Institutions and Inter-Firm Cooperation (with Abraham Newman), Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Fight over Freedom and Security, and Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (with Abraham Newman). Farrell has written for publications such as The New York Times, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Washington Monthly, The Boston Review, Aeon, New Scientist, and The Nation and is co-founder of the popular academic blog, Crooked Timber."The Complex Aftermath of Globalization" was given on September 26, 02023 as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminar series. The series was started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's leading thinkers. The Seminars take place in San Francisco and are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand. To follow the talks, you can:Subscribe to our podcasts: longnow.org/seminars/podcastExplore the full series: theinterval.org/salon-talksMore ideas on long-term thinking: blog.longnow.orgThe Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions.Become a Long Now member to support this series, join our community, and connect with our ongoing work to explore and deepen long-term thinking: longnow.org/membershipLike us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/longnowFollow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/longnowSubscribe to our channel: www.youtube.com/longnow
The Complex Aftermath of Globalization | Henry Farrell Long Now Foundation 2023-11-03 | Over 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 vision of world politics has emerged which breaks sharply both with the old logic of the Cold War and the newer politics of globalization.The globalization bet has turned sour, but it has created a far more closely connected world than ever existed before. Problems such as climate change, economic inequality, food security, supply chain vulnerabilities, democratic weakness and mass migration emerge from the interdependent choices of people and governments in a global system without any global rulers.In a complex interdependent world, is the only way forward to accept these complexities, and try to work with them? That is the challenge that the US now faces – moving from the simple imagined futures of the past to a more entangled and realistic vision of our planet's future.This Long Now Talk is presented in partnership with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. CASBS brings together deep thinkers from diverse disciplines and communities to advance understanding of the full range of human beliefs, behaviors, interactions, and institutions. A leading incubator of human-centered knowledge, CASBS facilitates collaborations across academia, policy, industry, civil society, and government to collectively design a better future.Henry Farrell is SNF Agora Institute Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a 02022- 23 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. Farrell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and works on a variety of topics, including democracy, the politics of the Internet and international and comparative political economy. He is author of The Political Economy of Trust: Interests, Institutions and Inter-Firm Cooperation (with Abraham Newman), Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Fight over Freedom and Security, and Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (with Abraham Newman). Farrell has written for publications such as The New York Times, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Washington Monthly, The Boston Review, Aeon, New Scientist, and The Nation and is co-founder of the popular academic blog, Crooked Timber."The Complex Aftermath of Globalization" was given on September 26, 02023 as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminar series. The series was started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's leading thinkers. The Seminars take place in San Francisco and are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand. To follow the talks, you can:Subscribe to our podcasts: longnow.org/seminars/podcastExplore the full series: theinterval.org/salon-talksMore ideas on long-term thinking: blog.longnow.orgThe Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions.Become a Long Now member to support this series, join our community, and connect with our ongoing work to explore and deepen long-term thinking: longnow.org/membershipLike us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/longnowFollow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/longnowSubscribe to our channel: www.youtube.com/longnow
Supply Chain Circulatory System | Coco Krumme Long Now Foundation 2023-11-03 | Data Scientist & Writer Coco Krumme shares an excerpt from her book, showing how the supply chain's circulatory system pulses to a rhythm coded by computer.From the Long Now Seminar, “The False Promise of Optimization” by Coco Krumme. Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/yWPUFPIRCfYCoco Krumme traces the fascinating history of optimization from its roots in America's founding principles, to its dominance as the driving principle of our modern world. Optimized models underlie everything and are deeply embedded in the technologies and assumptions that have come to comprise not only our material reality, but what we make of it. How did a mathematical concept take on such outsized cultural shape?Krumme's work in scientific computation made her aware of optimization's overreach, where she observed that streamlined systems are less resilient and more at risk of failure. They limit our options and narrow our perspectives. Optimal Illusions exposes the sizable bargains we have made in the name of optimization and asks us to consider what comes next.Coco Krumme is an applied mathematician and writer. After completing a doctorate at MIT and working in academia and tech, Krumme founded Leeward Co, a consultancy that helps research teams with computational science and strategy (aka data science) in agriculture, climate science, logistics, materials and biosciences. Krumme's first book is Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization."The False Promise of Optimization" was given on September 12, 02023 as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminar series. The series was started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's leading thinkers. The Seminars take place in San Francisco and are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand. To follow the talks, you can:Subscribe to our podcasts: longnow.org/seminars/podcastExplore the full series: theinterval.org/salon-talksMore ideas on long-term thinking: blog.longnow.orgThe Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions.Become a Long Now member to support this series, join our community, and connect with our ongoing work to explore and deepen long-term thinking: longnow.org/membershipLike us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/longnowFollow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/longnowSubscribe to our channel: www.youtube.com/longnow
The False Promise of Optimization | Coco Krumme Long Now Foundation 2023-10-20 | Coco Krumme traces the fascinating history of optimization from its roots in America's founding principles, to its dominance as the driving principle of our modern world. Optimized models underlie everything and are deeply embedded in the technologies and assumptions that have come to comprise not only our material reality, but what we make of it. How did a mathematical concept take on such outsized cultural shape?Krumme's work in scientific computation made her aware of optimization's overreach, where she observed that streamlined systems are less resilient and more at risk of failure. They limit our options and narrow our perspectives. Optimal Illusions exposes the sizable bargains we have made in the name of optimization and asks us to consider what comes next.Coco Krumme is an applied mathematician and writer. After completing a doctorate at MIT and working in academia and tech, Krumme founded Leeward Co, a consultancy that helps research teams with computational science and strategy (aka data science) in agriculture, climate science, logistics, materials and biosciences. Krumme's first book is Optimal Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization."The False Promise of Optimization" was given on September 12, 02023 as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminar series. The series was started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's leading thinkers. The Seminars take place in San Francisco and are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand. To follow the talks, you can:Subscribe to our podcasts: longnow.org/seminars/podcastExplore the full series: theinterval.org/salon-talksMore ideas on long-term thinking: blog.longnow.orgThe Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions.Become a Long Now member to support this series, join our community, and connect with our ongoing work to explore and deepen long-term thinking: longnow.org/membershipLike us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/longnowFollow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/longnowSubscribe to our channel: www.youtube.com/longnow
Radical Sharing | Bette Adriaanse & Chelsea T. Hicks Long Now Foundation 2023-10-18 | Our 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 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. Alternating between thinkers and doers whose approaches are helping to foster long term equality, this evening explores the choices that can be made to share time and resources with others in radical ways.Bette Adriaanse is a writer and co-founder of TRQSE, an international network of artists and scientists working together on social issues. Her new novel What’s Mine revolves around topics of property and sharing, and she is interested in the ways our sharing habits influence our societies and our characters.Chelsea T. Hicks is a writer and artist creating experimental work in her ancestral language of Wahzhazhe ie (Osage). Her collection of short stories is A Calm & Normal Heart.Virtual guests:Brian Eno is a musician, artist, writer, and co-founder of Earth Percent and The Long Now Foundation.Margaret Levi is an American political scientist and author, noted for her work in comparative political economy, labor politics, and democratic theory.Aqui Thami is an Indigenous artist, activist, academic, and member of the Himalayan Janajati Thang-mi community."Radical Sharing" was given on August 22, 02023 as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminar series. The series was started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's leading thinkers. The Seminars take place in San Francisco and are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand. To follow the talks, you can:Subscribe to our podcasts: http://longnow.org/seminars/podcastExplore the full series: theinterval.org/salon-talksMore ideas on long-term thinking: http://blog.longnow.orgThe Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions. Become a Long Now member to support this series, join our community, and connect with our ongoing work to explore and deepen long-term thinking: http://longnow.org/membershipLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/longnowFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/longnowSubscribe to our channel: youtube.com/longnow
Abby Smith Rumsey | Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures Long Now Foundation 2023-10-11 | As authoritarianism continues to rise around the world, the stories we tell ourselves about our collective history become a battleground for competing visions of the future. Drawing extensively from Russian history in the 20th century, Rumsey offers a framework to discuss our current social and political tensions and how our increasing polarization could shape our future.This Long Now Talk is presented in partnership with the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. CASBS brings together deep thinkers from diverse disciplines and communities to advance understanding of the full range of human beliefs, behaviors, interactions, and institutions. A leading incubator of human-centered knowledge, CASBS facilitates collaborations across academia, policy, industry, civil society, and government to collectively design a better future.Abby Smith Rumsey is a writer and historian focusing on the creation, preservation, and use of the cultural record in all media. She has worked with the Library of Congress and the National Science Foundation, taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins University and is currently the board chair of CASBS at Stanford. Her books include "Memory, Edited: Taking Liberties with History" (02023) and "When We Are No More, How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future" (02016).
Rematriation | Bette Adriaanse & Chelsea T. Hicks Long Now Foundation 2023-10-09 | Writer & co-founder Bette Adriaanse and writer & artist Chelsea T. Hicks explore ways in which we might reconnect with the earth, our selves, and each other.From the Seminar About Long-Term Thinking, “Radical Sharing” by Bette Adriaanse and Chelsea T. Hicks.Watch the full talk here: youtu.be/aiUZXFu6IbQOur 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 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. Alternating between thinkers and doers whose approaches are helping to foster long term equality, this evening explores the choices that can be made to share time and resources with others in radical ways.Bette Adriaanse is a writer and co-founder of TRQSE, an international network of artists and scientists working together on social issues. Her new novel What’s Mine revolves around topics of property and sharing, and she is interested in the ways our sharing habits influence our societies and our characters.Chelsea T. Hicks is a writer and artist creating experimental work in her ancestral language of Wahzhazhe ie (Osage). Her collection of short stories is A Calm & Normal Heart.Virtual guests:Brian Eno is a musician, artist, writer, and co-founder of Earth Percent and The Long Now Foundation.Margaret Levi is an American political scientist and author, noted for her work in comparative political economy, labor politics, and democratic theory.Aqui Thami is an Indigenous artist, activist, academic, and member of the Himalayan Janajati Thang-mi community."Radical Sharing" was given on August 22, 02023 as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminar series. The series was started in 02003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from some of the world's leading thinkers. The Seminars take place in San Francisco and are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand. To follow the talks, you can:Subscribe to our podcasts: http://longnow.org/seminars/podcastExplore the full series: theinterval.org/salon-talksMore ideas on long-term thinking: http://blog.longnow.orgThe Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions. Become a Long Now member to support this series, join our community, and connect with our ongoing work to explore and deepen long-term thinking: http://longnow.org/membershipLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/longnowFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/longnowSubscribe to our channel: youtube.com/longnow
Henry Farrell | The Complex Aftermath of Globalization Long Now Foundation 2023-09-27 | Over 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 vision of world politics has emerged which breaks sharply both with the old logic of the Cold War and the newer politics of globalization. The globalization bet has turned sour, but it has created a far more closely connected world than ever existed before. Problems such as climate change, economic inequality, food security, supply chain vulnerabilities, democratic weakness and mass migration emerge from the interdependent choices of people and governments in a global system without any global rulers.In a complex interdependent world, is the only way forward to accept these complexities, and try to work with them? That is the challenge that the US now faces – moving from the simple imagined futures of the past to a more entangled and realistic vision of our planet's future.Henry Farrell is SNF Agora Institute Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a 02022- 23 Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. Farrell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and works on a variety of topics, including democracy, the politics of the Internet and international and comparative political economy. He is author of The Political Economy of Trust: Interests, Institutions and Inter-Firm Cooperation (with Abraham Newman), Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Fight over Freedom and Security, and Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (with Abraham Newman). Farrell has written for publications such as The New York Times, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Washington Monthly, The Boston Review, Aeon, New Scientist, and The Nation and is co-founder of the popular academic blog, Crooked Timber.
Bette Adriaanse, Chelsea T. Hicks | Radical Sharing Long Now Foundation 2023-08-23 | Our 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 Brian Eno, Aqui Thami, and Margaret Levi about property and sharing, and how to make a lasting positive change in the way we share the world with each other. Alternating between thinkers and doers, whose actions help foster long term equality, this evening explores the choices that can be made to share time and resources with others in radical ways.Virtual guests:Brian Eno is a musician, artist, writer, and co-founder of Earth Percent and The Long Now Foundation.Aqui Thami is an Indigenous artist, activist, academic, and member of the Himalayan Janajati Thang-mi community.Margaret Levi is an American political scientist and author, noted for her work in comparative political economy, labor politics, and democratic theory.About Bette AdriaanseBette Adriaanse is a writer and co-founder of TRQSE, an international network of artists and scientists working together on social issues. Her new novel ‘What’s Mine’ revolves around topics of property and sharing, and she is interested in the ways our sharing habits influence our societies and our characters.About Chelsea T. HicksChelsea T. Hicks is a writer and artist creating experimental work in her ancestral language of Wahzhazhe ie (Osage).
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Fossil? | Trevor Haldenby Long Now Foundation 2023-08-01 | Long Now Member Trevor Haldenby hits us in the wonder zone with "why haven't we seen the fossilization of a whole Human yet?"With thousands of members from all around the world, the Long Now community has a wide range of perspectives, stories, and experiences to offer. We're excited to showcase our annual curated set of short Ignite Talks created and given by the Long Now Members themselves. Presenting on the subjects of their choice, speakers have precisely 5 minutes to amuse, educate, enlighten, or inspire the audience.Our speakers and their talks:Natasha Blum: Famous Last Words: Self-Discovery for Life, Death, and RebirthDave Elfving: My AI Co-TeacherAltay Guvench: Ultraviolet Exploration: Fluorescence in NatureTrevor Haldenby: Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Fossil?Andra Keay: RobotopiaAlyssa Ravasio: Recreation for Restoration Jason Roberts: To State The Obvious: Addressing History's Blind SpotYa'el Shatz: From Dirt to TreasureSarah Cameron Sunde: Tides As Metaphor: Proposals Toward Living on Tidal Time Diane Tate: Oral History and Human ConnectionNatalia Vasquez: Visualizing Climate FuturesJason Winn: Stories as Ancient Maps: A Tale Told for Ten Thousand Five Hundred YearsConnie Yang: Nonagenarians Doing Shit More than 12,000 people across 65+ countries are members of The Long Now Foundation. Our membership includes students, CEOs, writers, scientists, parents, politicians, musicians, artists, naturalists, journalists, professionals, farmers, explorers, astronauts and more.The Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility and we are entirely supported by donors and members. Membership connects you to a whole world of ideas, people and projects working to make a better future and your support will help inspire long-term thinking for generations to come.Subscribe to our podcasts: http://longnow.org/seminars/podcastExplore the full series: http://longnow.org/seminarsMore ideas on long-term thinking: http://blog.longnow.orgThe Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions. Become a Long Now member to support this series, join our community, and connect with our ongoing work to explore and deepen long-term thinking: http://longnow.org/membershipLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/longnowFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/longnowSubscribe to our channel: youtube.com/longnow
Famous Last Words: Self-Discovery for Life, Death, and Rebirth | Natasha Blum Long Now Foundation 2023-08-01 | Long Now Member Natasha Blum encourages us to creatively explore and discover death's wide frontier.With thousands of members from all around the world, the Long Now community has a wide range of perspectives, stories, and experiences to offer. We're excited to showcase our annual curated set of short Ignite Talks created and given by the Long Now Members themselves. Presenting on the subjects of their choice, speakers have precisely 5 minutes to amuse, educate, enlighten, or inspire the audience.Our speakers and their talks:Natasha Blum: Famous Last Words: Self-Discovery for Life, Death, and RebirthDave Elfving: My AI Co-TeacherAltay Guvench: Ultraviolet Exploration: Fluorescence in NatureTrevor Haldenby: Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Fossil?Andra Keay: RobotopiaAlyssa Ravasio: Recreation for Restoration Jason Roberts: To State The Obvious: Addressing History's Blind SpotYa'el Shatz: From Dirt to TreasureSarah Cameron Sunde: Tides As Metaphor: Proposals Toward Living on Tidal TimeDiane Tate: Oral History and Human ConnectionNatalia Vasquez: Visualizing Climate FuturesJason Winn: Stories as Ancient Maps: A Tale Told for Ten Thousand Five Hundred YearsConnie Yang: Nonagenarians Doing Shit More than 12,000 people across 65+ countries are members of The Long Now Foundation. Our membership includes students, CEOs, writers, scientists, parents, politicians, musicians, artists, naturalists, journalists, professionals, farmers, explorers, astronauts and more.The Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility and we are entirely supported by donors and members. Membership connects you to a whole world of ideas, people and projects working to make a better future and your support will help inspire long-term thinking for generations to come.Subscribe to our podcasts: http://longnow.org/seminars/podcastExplore the full series: http://longnow.org/seminarsMore ideas on long-term thinking: http://blog.longnow.orgThe Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions. Become a Long Now member to support this series, join our community, and connect with our ongoing work to explore and deepen long-term thinking: http://longnow.org/membershipLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/longnowFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/longnowSubscribe to our channel: youtube.com/longnow
Visualizing Climate Futures | Natalia Vasquez Long Now Foundation 2023-08-01 | Long Now Member Natalia Vasquez shares her vividly visioned speculative future, and invites us to envision our own.With thousands of members from all around the world, the Long Now community has a wide range of perspectives, stories, and experiences to offer. We're excited to showcase our annual curated set of short Ignite Talks created and given by the Long Now Members themselves. Presenting on the subjects of their choice, speakers have precisely 5 minutes to amuse, educate, enlighten, or inspire the audience.Our speakers and their talks:Natasha Blum: Famous Last Words: Self-Discovery for Life, Death, and RebirthDave Elfving: My AI Co-TeacherAltay Guvench: Ultraviolet Exploration: Fluorescence in NatureTrevor Haldenby: Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Fossil?Andra Keay: RobotopiaAlyssa Ravasio: Recreation for Restoration Jason Roberts: To State The Obvious: Addressing History's Blind SpotYa'el Shatz: From Dirt to TreasureSarah Cameron Sunde: Tides As Metaphor: Proposals Toward Living on Tidal TimeDiane Tate: Oral History and Human ConnectionNatalia Vasquez: Visualizing Climate FuturesJason Winn: Stories as Ancient Maps: A Tale Told for Ten Thousand Five Hundred YearsConnie Yang: Nonagenarians Doing Shit More than 12,000 people across 65+ countries are members of The Long Now Foundation. Our membership includes students, CEOs, writers, scientists, parents, politicians, musicians, artists, naturalists, journalists, professionals, farmers, explorers, astronauts and more.The Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility and we are entirely supported by donors and members. Membership connects you to a whole world of ideas, people and projects working to make a better future and your support will help inspire long-term thinking for generations to come.Subscribe to our podcasts: http://longnow.org/seminars/podcastExplore the full series: http://longnow.org/seminarsMore ideas on long-term thinking: http://blog.longnow.orgThe Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions. Become a Long Now member to support this series, join our community, and connect with our ongoing work to explore and deepen long-term thinking: http://longnow.org/membershipLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/longnowFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/longnowSubscribe to our channel: youtube.com/longnow
Tides As Metaphor: Proposals Toward Living on Tidal Time | Sarah Cameron Sunde Long Now Foundation 2023-07-31 | Long Now Member Sarah Cameron Sunde collaborates with communities around the world on site-specific immersive performances, learning to live in tidal time.With thousands of members from all around the world, the Long Now community has a wide range of perspectives, stories, and experiences to offer. We're excited to showcase our annual curated set of short Ignite Talks created and given by the Long Now Members themselves. Presenting on the subjects of their choice, speakers have precisely 5 minutes to amuse, educate, enlighten, or inspire the audience.Our speakers and their talks:Natasha Blum: Famous Last Words: Self-Discovery for Life, Death, and RebirthDave Elfving: My AI Co-TeacherAltay Guvench: Ultraviolet Exploration: Fluorescence in NatureTrevor Haldenby: Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Fossil?Andra Keay: RobotopiaAlyssa Ravasio: Recreation for Restoration Jason Roberts: To State The Obvious: Addressing History's Blind SpotYa'el Shatz: From Dirt to TreasureSarah Cameron Sunde: Tides As Metaphor: Proposals Toward Living on Tidal TimeDiane Tate: Oral History and Human ConnectionNatalia Vasquez: Visualizing Climate FuturesJason Winn: Stories as Ancient Maps: A Tale Told for Ten Thousand Five Hundred YearsConnie Yang: Nonagenarians Doing Shit More than 12,000 people across 65+ countries are members of The Long Now Foundation. Our membership includes students, CEOs, writers, scientists, parents, politicians, musicians, artists, naturalists, journalists, professionals, farmers, explorers, astronauts and more.The Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility and we are entirely supported by donors and members. Membership connects you to a whole world of ideas, people and projects working to make a better future and your support will help inspire long-term thinking for generations to come.Subscribe to our podcasts: http://longnow.org/seminars/podcastExplore the full series: http://longnow.org/seminarsMore ideas on long-term thinking: http://blog.longnow.orgThe Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions. Become a Long Now member to support this series, join our community, and connect with our ongoing work to explore and deepen long-term thinking: http://longnow.org/membershipLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/longnowFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/longnowSubscribe to our channel: youtube.com/longnow
Stories as Ancient Maps: A Tale Told for Ten Thousand Five Hundred Years | Jason Winn Long Now Foundation 2023-07-31 | Long Now Member Jason Winn tells a story of humanity's oldest technology: storytelling.With thousands of members from all around the world, the Long Now community has a wide range of perspectives, stories, and experiences to offer. We're excited to showcase our annual curated set of short Ignite Talks created and given by the Long Now Members themselves. Presenting on the subjects of their choice, speakers have precisely 5 minutes to amuse, educate, enlighten, or inspire the audience.Our speakers and their talks:Natasha Blum: Famous Last Words: Self-Discovery for Life, Death, and RebirthDave Elfving: My AI Co-TeacherAltay Guvench: Ultraviolet Exploration: Fluorescence in NatureTrevor Haldenby: Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Fossil?Andra Keay: RobotopiaAlyssa Ravasio: Recreation for Restoration Jason Roberts: To State The Obvious: Addressing History's Blind SpotYa'el Shatz: From Dirt to TreasureSarah Cameron Sunde: Tides As Metaphor: Proposals Toward Living on Tidal TimeDiane Tate: Oral History and Human ConnectionNatalia Vasquez: Visualizing Climate FuturesJason Winn: Stories as Ancient Maps: A Tale Told for Ten Thousand Five Hundred YearsConnie Yang: Nonagenarians Doing Shit More than 12,000 people across 65+ countries are members of The Long Now Foundation. Our membership includes students, CEOs, writers, scientists, parents, politicians, musicians, artists, naturalists, journalists, professionals, farmers, explorers, astronauts and more.The Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility and we are entirely supported by donors and members. Membership connects you to a whole world of ideas, people and projects working to make a better future and your support will help inspire long-term thinking for generations to come.Subscribe to our podcasts: http://longnow.org/seminars/podcastExplore the full series: http://longnow.org/seminarsMore ideas on long-term thinking: http://blog.longnow.orgThe Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions. Become a Long Now member to support this series, join our community, and connect with our ongoing work to explore and deepen long-term thinking: http://longnow.org/membershipLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/longnowFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/longnowSubscribe to our channel: youtube.com/longnow
To State The Obvious: Addressing Historys Blind Spot | Jason Roberts Long Now Foundation 2023-07-31 | Long Now Member Jason Roberts elucidates how common knowledge becomes uncommon, and emphasizes the need for a Department of Obvious Information.With thousands of members from all around the world, the Long Now community has a wide range of perspectives, stories, and experiences to offer. We're excited to showcase our annual curated set of short Ignite Talks created and given by the Long Now Members themselves. Presenting on the subjects of their choice, speakers have precisely 5 minutes to amuse, educate, enlighten, or inspire the audience.Our speakers and their talks:Natasha Blum: Famous Last Words: Self-Discovery for Life, Death, and RebirthDave Elfving: My AI Co-TeacherAltay Guvench: Ultraviolet Exploration: Fluorescence in NatureTrevor Haldenby: Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Fossil?Andra Keay: RobotopiaAlyssa Ravasio: Recreation for Restoration Jason Roberts: To State The Obvious: Addressing History's Blind SpotYa'el Shatz: From Dirt to TreasureSarah Cameron Sunde: Tides As Metaphor: Proposals Toward Living on Tidal TimeDiane Tate: Oral History and Human ConnectionNatalia Vasquez: Visualizing Climate FuturesJason Winn: Stories as Ancient Maps: A Tale Told for Ten Thousand Five Hundred YearsConnie Yang: Nonagenarians Doing Shit More than 12,000 people across 65+ countries are members of The Long Now Foundation. Our membership includes students, CEOs, writers, scientists, parents, politicians, musicians, artists, naturalists, journalists, professionals, farmers, explorers, astronauts and more.The Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility and we are entirely supported by donors and members. Membership connects you to a whole world of ideas, people and projects working to make a better future and your support will help inspire long-term thinking for generations to come.Subscribe to our podcasts: http://longnow.org/seminars/podcastExplore the full series: http://longnow.org/seminarsMore ideas on long-term thinking: http://blog.longnow.orgThe Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions. Become a Long Now member to support this series, join our community, and connect with our ongoing work to explore and deepen long-term thinking: http://longnow.org/membershipLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/longnowFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/longnowSubscribe to our channel: youtube.com/longnow
From Dirt to Treasure | Yael Shatz Long Now Foundation 2023-07-31 | Long 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 around the world, the Long Now community has a wide range of perspectives, stories, and experiences to offer. We're excited to showcase our annual curated set of short Ignite Talks created and given by the Long Now Members themselves. Presenting on the subjects of their choice, speakers have precisely 5 minutes to amuse, educate, enlighten, or inspire the audience.Our speakers and their talks:Natasha Blum: Famous Last Words: Self-Discovery for Life, Death, and RebirthDave Elfving: My AI Co-TeacherAltay Guvench: Ultraviolet Exploration: Fluorescence in NatureTrevor Haldenby: Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Fossil?Andra Keay: RobotopiaAlyssa Ravasio: Recreation for Restoration Jason Roberts: To State The Obvious: Addressing History's Blind SpotYa'el Shatz: From Dirt to TreasureSarah Cameron Sunde: Tides As Metaphor: Proposals Toward Living on Tidal Time Diane Tate: Oral History and Human ConnectionNatalia Vasquez: Visualizing Climate FuturesJason Winn: Stories as Ancient Maps: A Tale Told for Ten Thousand Five Hundred YearsConnie Yang: Nonagenarians Doing Shit More than 12,000 people across 65+ countries are members of The Long Now Foundation. Our membership includes students, CEOs, writers, scientists, parents, politicians, musicians, artists, naturalists, journalists, professionals, farmers, explorers, astronauts and more.The Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility and we are entirely supported by donors and members. Membership connects you to a whole world of ideas, people and projects working to make a better future and your support will help inspire long-term thinking for generations to come.Subscribe to our podcasts: http://longnow.org/seminars/podcastExplore the full series: http://longnow.org/seminarsMore ideas on long-term thinking: http://blog.longnow.orgThe Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Our projects include a 10,000 Year Clock, endangered language preservation, thousand year+ data storage, and Long Bets, an arena for accountable predictions. Become a Long Now member to support this series, join our community, and connect with our ongoing work to explore and deepen long-term thinking: http://longnow.org/membershipLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/longnowFollow us on Twitter: twitter.com/longnowSubscribe to our channel: youtube.com/longnow
