The Long Now Foundation
Since 01996: Long Now is a non-profit organization fostering long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.
- Ancient bristlecone pines have been collecting data for us for millennia. Scientists like Long Now Research Fellow Anne Heggli (@driscience.bsky.social) work to build a long-term scientific legacy among these ancient trees. longnow.org/ideas/long-s...
- 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. Read @johnwlast.bsky.social on the tensions within sainthood: longnow.org/ideas/saints...
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- Stephen Heintz and Kim Stanley Robinson say we live in an “Age of Turbulence.” In their new Long Now Talk, they discuss “A Logic For The Future” — a new path for international relations in the face of the chaos of our current age. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO7e...
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- What if AI isn’t here as replacement or overlord, but to remind us of who we are and what is possible? Starting in 45 minutes: a Long Now Talk from Kim Carson on Purpose and Creativity in the AI Era www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpCk...
- Fifty-five years ago today, the first Earth Day in 01970 was inspired by NASA's release of the first human-captured photos of Earth from Space in 01968. The organizers of Earth Day celebrations all over the planet used the image of our planet from space as symbol of unity: humanity, together.
- How will AI shape our understanding of our creativity and ourselves? Watch @kalladomcdowell.bsky.social's Long Now Talk: On Neural Media: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu3y...
- "Our self-domestication is just the start of our humanity. We are self-domesticated apes, but more important, we are apes that have invented ourselves." - @kevinkelly.bsky.social longnow.org/ideas/self-d...
- Miss @saraimari.bsky.social's Long Now Talk from last night? Watch it here: youtube.com/live/l0YHLR3...
- Photographed @saraimari.bsky.social at The Interval of the @longnow.org. We talked origins of life, assembly theory, and the universe as a creative act. Full story + portrait: glass.photo/cm/2f9pkwI47... @nationalacademies.org @arizonastateuni.bsky.social
- What is life — and how can physics help shape our understanding of how it arises in the universe? Starting now: @saraimari.bsky.social Walker's Long Now Talk on an Informational Theory of Life www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0YH...
- "Life, not computation, unlocks our non-deterministic future. Only by looking beyond our current technological moment to the next technologies creating new life forms will we be able to understand what our future could hold." Read @saraimari.bsky.social: longnow.org/ideas/physic...
- Tomorrow: Join us for a Long Now Talk from astrobiologist and theoretical physicist @saraimari.bsky.social on An Informational Theory of Life 7 PM @ The Cowell Theater in San Francisco & Livestreamed on Long Now's YouTube Channel longnow.org/ideas/inform...
- Miss Ahmed Best's Long Now Talk last month on Valentine's Day? Watch the full talk now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM1K...
- When you feel the future, how do you share that feeling in order to build community? Watch Star Wars Star and Afrofuturist Ahmed Best's Long Now Talk: Feel the Future www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM1K...
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- We find ourselves in a “pre-paradigmatic moment” in which our technology has outpaced our theories of what to do with it. The task of philosophy today is to catch up. Watch Benjamin Bratton’s Long Now Talk on the philosophy of planetary computation: youtu.be/DlPMV5LJc-I
- Miss last night's conversation between Stephen Heintz and Kim Stanley Robinson? Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZR0...
