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New Seminar Apps and Long Now Video Archive

by Danielle Engelman on May 11th, 02016

The Long Now Foundation is making its video archive of the Seminars About Long-Term Thinking (SALT) freely available on its website and on the new Apple apps, allowing people to stream the SALT Seminars on Apple TV and their iOS devices. The free iOS apps feature videos of The Long Now Foundation’s . . .   Read More

Stephen Pyne, “Ecological Wildfire”

by Danielle Engelman on February 25th, 02016

This lecture was presented as part of The Long Now Foundation’s monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking.

Fire Slow, Fire Fast, Fire Deep
Tuesday February 9, 02016 – San Francisco

Video is up on the Pyne Seminar page.
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Long Now Meetup Guide

by Danielle Engelman on January 5th, 02016

Long Now has members all over the world, and one of the most frequent requests that the Foundation receives is how can members connect with each other and host conversations and events around long-term thinking in their own area. We have created this Long Now Meetup Guide to provide some broad guidelines and point to […]

Ramez Naam, “Enhancing Humans and Humanity”

by Danielle Engelman on August 7th, 02015

This lecture was presented as part of The Long Now Foundation’s monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking.

Enhancing Humans, Advancing Humanity
Wednesday July 22, 02015 – San Francisco

Video is up on the Naam Seminar page.
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Beth Shapiro, “De-extinction Science”

by Danielle Engelman on June 1st, 02015

This lecture was presented as part of The Long Now Foundation’s monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking.

How to Clone a Mammoth
Monday May 11, 02015 – San Francisco

Video is up on the Shapiro Seminar page.
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Kevin Kelly, “Holos Rising”

by Danielle Engelman on December 1st, 02014

This lecture was presented as part of The Long Now Foundation’s monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking.

Technium Unbound
Wednesday November 12, 02014 – San Francisco

Video is up on the Kelly Seminar page.
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Holos Rising – a summary by Stewart. . .   Read More

Major Update on the 10,000 Year Clock Project

by Danielle Engelman on June 17th, 02011

The Long Now Foundation has started excavations for our first 10,000 Year Clock in west Texas. Though the date of completion of the 10,000 Year Clock has not been set, and it is still many years into the future, we’re very pleased to let you know that you can now sign up on our waiting […]

Smart Night Out and Long Now explore “Quiet”

by Danielle Engelman on May 17th, 02011

Smart Night Out, the new art happening from Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, explores the theme of Quiet on its inaugural night of Saturday May 28, 02011 from 7:00pm to 11:30pm. This event is free to attend when you RSVP. Long Now was invited by YBCA to curate the screening room and we asked […]

Sound Tower Event with Misha Glouberman

by Danielle Engelman on September 10th, 02010

Long Now has been invited by experimental artist Misha Glouberman to be a partner in a commissioned performance he’s created for Ann Hamilton’s Sound Tower – an 80-foot tall site-specific sculpture located on the Oliver Ranch in Geyserville.   This participatory event takes place on Saturday September 25, 02010 in Geyserville California.

Terrible. . .   Read More

Long Now at Wikimania 02010 in Gdansk Poland

by Danielle Engelman on July 6th, 02010

Dr. Laura Welcher and Dr. Kurt Bollacker of Long Now will be speaking at this year’s Wikimania conference in Gdansk Poland over the weekend of July 9 – 11, 02010 on the creation of a new Language Commons Wiki. Wikimania is a conference for users of the wiki projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Topics […]