As The Long Now Foundation steps into its second quarter century, I find myself reflecting on what an extraordinary moment we're living through and how grateful I am for our community. The rapid ...

Here, at the dawn of our second quarter century, we’re thrilled to announce our next generation leadership: Rebecca Lendl as ...

Ezra Klein is a columnist and podcast host at The New York Times and the author of Why We’re Polarized (02020). We continue to release media from all of our talks and you can follow the series by ...

At Imagine Global, Carson leads initiatives and makes investments in technologies that leverage AI to enhance personal and societal transformation. Her approach is deeply informed by wisdom from ...

Inspired by Intelligence: Purpose and Creativity in the AI Era Kim Carson will explore the profound question of how to rediscover and define human purpose in the age of AI. With influences ranging ...

Each year LOST LANDSCAPES casts an archival gaze on San Francisco and its surrounding areas. The film is drawn from newly scanned archival footage, including home movies, government-produced and ...

The Antikythera mechanism, sometimes called the “first computer,” was more than a calculator; it was also an astronomical device. Thus the birth of computation is in the orienting of intelligence to ...

It has been over 25 years since a handful of pragmatic idealists with a penchant for audaciousness started The Long Now Foundation. It was 10 years before the iPhone. Two years before Google. The ...

The piece was included in the 02024 edition of Pace Layers, Long Now's Annual Journal of the best of long-term thinking. I have been thinking about what it will take to move from a global civilization ...