The Long Now Foundation

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The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to encourage and foster long-term thinking and responsibility through a variety of projects including a clock designed to last 10,000 years (now being constructed in Texas), a monthly seminar series about long-term thinking, and the Rosetta Project which documents and preserves the diversity of human languages. Find out more at http://longnow.orgLong Now’s founders and board of directors include pioneering scientists, writers, technologists, artists and futurists such as Brian Eno, Danny Hillis, David Eagleman, David Rumsey, Douglas Carlston, E...

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Jill Tarter - The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence: Necessarily a Long-term Strategy 08.07.2004 1:21:13

Jill Tarter - The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence: Necessarily a Long-term Strategy by The Long Now Foundation

Bruce Sterling - The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole 10.06.2004 1:37:28

Your future as a black hole One reason lots of people don’t want to think long term these days is because technology keeps accelerating so rapidly, we assume the world will become unrecognizable in a few years and then move on to unimaginable. Long-term thinking must be either impossible or irrelevant. The commonest shorthand term for the runaway acceleration of technology is “the Singularity”—a c...

David Rumsey - Mapping Time 13.05.2004 1:40:35

Maps and time David Rumsey’s spectacularly illustrated lecture, “Mapping Time” is not just about maps. It is the future of data and knowledge handling. People literally gasp at the things Rumsey shows can be done. I love it when techies, artists, and historians all gasp at the same time. That happened with David Rumsey’s spectacularly illustrated Seminar About Long-term Thinking on May 13-14, “Map...

Daniel Janzen - Third World Conservation: It's ALL Gardening 08.04.2004 1:26:32

Daniel Janzen Wikipedia Home Page Mega gardening Big as life and twice as opinionated, the renowned preservation biologist Daniel Janzen spoke for The Long Now on Friday, April 9, 2005. His perspective on preservation may be jarring to some: “It’s ALL Gardening”. Dan Janzen is most widely known for his heroic efforts helping set all of Costa Rica on a preservation path, ensuring that the mega-dive...

Rusty Schweickart - The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years 11.03.2004 1:31:58

The epitome of long-term thinking is to take seriously the protection of the Earth from massive asteroid impacts, which in the past have extincted as much as 90% of life on Earth. On Friday, March 12, astronaut Rusty Schweickart will give a public lecture titled "The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years." It will detail graphically the results of his research on asteroid impact frequency an...

James Dewar - Long-term Policy Analysis 12.02.2004 1:09:10

James Dewar - Long-term Policy Analysis by The Long Now Foundation

George Dyson - There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing 08.01.2004 1:30:11

George Dyson is ringing a change on the famous 1959 lecture by physicist Richard Feynman that showed the way to nanotechnology. It was called, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom."

Peter Schwartz - The Art Of The Really Long View 11.12.2003 1:29:11

Peter Schwartz, considered by many to be the world's leading futurist, will be trying out new ideas in public in a talk titled, "The Art of the Really Long View." He'll be talking about ways to engage the next several hundred years.

Brian Eno - The Long Now 12.11.2003 1:17:19

This is not a concert. Brian Eno will be speaking about "The Long Now." His talk will be the first of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking, sponsored by The Long Now Foundation. His talks are usually as amazing as his music. The on-going lectures in this new series will be every second Friday at Fort Mason. Future speakers include Peter Schwartz, George Dyson, Laurie Anderson, Rus...