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A Logic For The Future: International Relations in the Age of Turbulence
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Why the Physics Underlying Life is Fundamental and Computation is Not
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Our ability to explain gravity fundamentally changed how we interact with our world. So too might an explanatory framework for life transform our future.
on Apr 6
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Richard Rhodes: Twilight of the Bombs — 02010 Seminar Flashback
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In September 02010 Richard Rhodes spoke about Twilight of the Bombshis history on nuclear weapons from the end of the Cold War to the 21st Century [http://longnow.org/seminars/02010/sep/21/twilight-bombs/]. Rhodes won the Pulitzer prize for The Making of the Atomic Bomb [http://www.amazon.com/
on Mar 8
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New research into the role of psychedelics upends our understanding of spirituality — and with it, our vision of the cosmos.
on Feb 27
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Ahmed Best Takes the Long View
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The award-winning multidisciplinary artist, film pioneer, and futurist on interstellar travel, creativity, and the connection between sand divination and smartphones.
on Feb 3
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A Philosophy of Planetary Computation: From Antikythera to Synthetic Intelligence
on Jan 14
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Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning
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Pace layers provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing feedback throughout the system. It is in the contradictions between these layers that civilization finds its surest health. I propose six significant levels of pace and size in a robust and adaptable civilization.
on Dec 31
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Thoughts from The Long Now Foundation’s new Board President on dancing with ideas.
on Dec 27
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Elements of a Durable Civilization
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Civilizations come and go. Civilization continues.
on Nov 26
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The inaugural issue of Long Now’s new annual print journal synthesizes the most important learnings of our first quarter-century.
on Nov 25
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What if the long-term solution to today's traffic jams was invented more than three centuries ago?
on Aug 1
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Celebrating The Interval’s Decennial
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Long Now’s bar, cafe, and event space in San Francisco turns ten — and it’s getting even better with age.
on Jun 26
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Becoming "Children of a Modest Star"
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Long Now talks with Jonathan Blake & Nils Gilman, authors of "Children of a Modest Star," about planetary thinking.
on Jun 6
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Shining a Light on the Digital Dark Age
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Without maintenance, most digital information will be lost in just a few decades. How might we secure our data so that it survives for generations?
on May 31
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Long Now Years: Five-digit Dates and Y10K-compliance at Home
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Long Now 10-second Intro animation [http://vimeo.com/70575018] Conceived by Alexander Rose, James Anderson and Chris Baldwin | Sound by Brian Eno The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates to guard against the deca-millennium bug (the “Y10K” problem) which will come into effect in...
on Apr 15, 2024
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Why has Chile, a country riven by inequality and political conflict, become a global sanctuary for the long science that drives astronomical discovery?
on Apr 6, 2024
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Danny Hillis answers frequently asked questions about the 10,000-year clock
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There is a huge clock inside a mountain that will tick for 10,000 years. It’s real. As one example of long-term thinking, the face of this clock has been adopted by The Long Now Foundation in its logo. This very real clock deliberately stirs up many questions. Danny
on Mar 23, 2024