Interspecies Ecologies Why the Physics Underlying Life is Fundamental and Computation is Not Our ability to explain gravity fundamentally changed how we interact with our world. So too might an explanatory framework for life transform our future. By Sara Imari Walker Neural Media Am I Slop? Am I Agentic? Am I Earth? By K Allado-McDowell Culture Ahmed Best Takes the Long View Ahmed Best in conversation with The Long Now Foundation The Big Here Antikythera By Benjamin Bratton Long-term Thinking Reframing the Future By Patrick Dowd Majority World A Logic for the Future International Relations in the Age of Turbulence By Stephen Heintz Announcements Launching Long Now’s Second Quarter Century By Rebecca Lendl & Patrick Dowd Announcements Announcing Pace Layers By The Long Now Foundation Essays Elements of a Durable Civilization By Stewart Brand Economics How Our Economic Stories Shape the World By Denise Hearn Interspecies Ecologies Is God a Mushroom? New research into the role of psychedelics upends our understanding of spirituality — and with it, our vision of the cosmos. By John Last Nevada Bristlecone Preserve Enlarging the Question Jonathon Keats in conversation with William L. Fox Science Fiction The Weather Out There By Andrew Dana Hudson Science Fiction Space is Dead. Why Do We Keep Writing About It? By Andrew Dana Hudson Culture Saints Without a Cause By John Last Interspecies Ecologies Why the Physics Underlying Life is Fundamental and Computation is Not Our ability to explain gravity fundamentally changed how we interact with our world. So too might an explanatory framework for life transform our future. By Sara Imari Walker Majority World A Logic for the Future International Relations in the Age of Turbulence By Stephen Heintz Interspecies Ecologies Is God a Mushroom? New research into the role of psychedelics upends our understanding of spirituality — and with it, our vision of the cosmos. By John Last Neural Media Am I Slop? Am I Agentic? Am I Earth? Identity in the Age of Neural Media By K Allado-McDowell Culture Ahmed Best Takes the Long View The award-winning multidisciplinary artist, film pioneer, and futurist on interstellar travel, creativity, and the connection between sand divination and smartphones. Ahmed Best in conversation with The Long Now Foundation The Big Here Antikythera How might planetary intelligence steer itself toward its own survival? By Benjamin Bratton Long-term Thinking Reframing the Future Thoughts from The Long Now Foundation’s new Board President on dancing with ideas. By Patrick Dowd Announcements Launching Long Now’s Second Quarter Century Announcing a new generation of leadership for The Long Now Foundation By Rebecca Lendl & Patrick Dowd Announcements Announcing Pace Layers The inaugural issue of Long Now’s new annual print journal synthesizes the most important learnings of our first quarter-century. By The Long Now Foundation Essays Elements of a Durable Civilization Civilizations come and go. Civilization continues. By Stewart Brand Economics How Our Economic Stories Shape the World An Excerpt from Denise Hearn’s 02024 Long Now Talk, “Embodied Economies.” By Denise Hearn Nevada Bristlecone Preserve Enlarging the Question A wide-ranging discussion with the conceptual artist and experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats on his life, his philosophy, and a handful of his many projects, including Centuries of the Bristlecone, a forthcoming collaboration with Long Now and the Nevada Museum of Art. Jonathon Keats in conversation with William L. Fox Science Fiction The Weather Out There A work of speculative fiction about communication between humans and across the stars — and what happens when that communication breaks down. By Andrew Dana Hudson Science Fiction Space is Dead. Why Do We Keep Writing About It? Maybe our best bet of finding out what’s Out There in the universe is to extend our reach not into the vastness of space but into the equally vast expanse of time. By Andrew Dana Hudson Culture Saints Without a Cause The Catholic Church has been undergoing a long, slow shift, playing out on the timescale of centuries: a shift to distance itself from the popular enthusiasms of its most devout parishioners. By John Last Explore over two decades of long-term thinking Concepts Long-term Thinking The Big Here Digital Dark Age Organizational Continuity Futures Millennial Precedent Archives Long Shorts Long News Projects Announcements Long Now Talks The Clock of the Long Now The Rosetta Project The Interval Long Bets Revive & Restore PanLex Manual For Civilization Disciplines Art Business Cities Civilization Climate Change Computing Culture Economics Energy Environment Evolution Genetics Globalization Government History Infrastructure Language Psychology Science Science Fiction Space Technology Year 02022 02021 02020 02019 02018 02017 02016 02015 02014 02013 02012 02011 02010 02009 02008 02007 02006 02005 02004 OLDER
Interspecies Ecologies Why the Physics Underlying Life is Fundamental and Computation is Not Our ability to explain gravity fundamentally changed how we interact with our world. So too might an explanatory framework for life transform our future. By Sara Imari Walker
Majority World A Logic for the Future International Relations in the Age of Turbulence By Stephen Heintz
Interspecies Ecologies Is God a Mushroom? New research into the role of psychedelics upends our understanding of spirituality — and with it, our vision of the cosmos. By John Last
Nevada Bristlecone Preserve Enlarging the Question Jonathon Keats in conversation with William L. Fox
Interspecies Ecologies Why the Physics Underlying Life is Fundamental and Computation is Not Our ability to explain gravity fundamentally changed how we interact with our world. So too might an explanatory framework for life transform our future. By Sara Imari Walker
Majority World A Logic for the Future International Relations in the Age of Turbulence By Stephen Heintz
Interspecies Ecologies Is God a Mushroom? New research into the role of psychedelics upends our understanding of spirituality — and with it, our vision of the cosmos. By John Last
Neural Media Am I Slop? Am I Agentic? Am I Earth? Identity in the Age of Neural Media By K Allado-McDowell
Culture Ahmed Best Takes the Long View The award-winning multidisciplinary artist, film pioneer, and futurist on interstellar travel, creativity, and the connection between sand divination and smartphones. Ahmed Best in conversation with The Long Now Foundation
The Big Here Antikythera How might planetary intelligence steer itself toward its own survival? By Benjamin Bratton
Long-term Thinking Reframing the Future Thoughts from The Long Now Foundation’s new Board President on dancing with ideas. By Patrick Dowd
Announcements Launching Long Now’s Second Quarter Century Announcing a new generation of leadership for The Long Now Foundation By Rebecca Lendl & Patrick Dowd
Announcements Announcing Pace Layers The inaugural issue of Long Now’s new annual print journal synthesizes the most important learnings of our first quarter-century. By The Long Now Foundation
Essays Elements of a Durable Civilization Civilizations come and go. Civilization continues. By Stewart Brand
Economics How Our Economic Stories Shape the World An Excerpt from Denise Hearn’s 02024 Long Now Talk, “Embodied Economies.” By Denise Hearn
Nevada Bristlecone Preserve Enlarging the Question A wide-ranging discussion with the conceptual artist and experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats on his life, his philosophy, and a handful of his many projects, including Centuries of the Bristlecone, a forthcoming collaboration with Long Now and the Nevada Museum of Art. Jonathon Keats in conversation with William L. Fox
Science Fiction The Weather Out There A work of speculative fiction about communication between humans and across the stars — and what happens when that communication breaks down. By Andrew Dana Hudson
Science Fiction Space is Dead. Why Do We Keep Writing About It? Maybe our best bet of finding out what’s Out There in the universe is to extend our reach not into the vastness of space but into the equally vast expanse of time. By Andrew Dana Hudson
Culture Saints Without a Cause The Catholic Church has been undergoing a long, slow shift, playing out on the timescale of centuries: a shift to distance itself from the popular enthusiasms of its most devout parishioners. By John Last