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Since 01996: Long Now is a non-profit organization fostering long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.
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Grateful to see my essay “Life, Intelligence, and Consciousness: A Functional Perspective” appear in @longnow.org’s annual journal, Pace Layers.
November 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Grateful to see my essay “Life, Intelligence, and Consciousness: A Functional Perspective” appear in @longnow.org’s annual journal, Pace Layers.
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We are excited to share that DRI's Anne Heggli's work appears in this year’s Pace Layers journal, a publication dedicated to long-term thinking and enduring futures.
You can learn more about the issue at longnow.org/pacelayers
You can learn more about the issue at longnow.org/pacelayers
November 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
We are excited to share that DRI's Anne Heggli's work appears in this year’s Pace Layers journal, a publication dedicated to long-term thinking and enduring futures.
You can learn more about the issue at longnow.org/pacelayers
You can learn more about the issue at longnow.org/pacelayers
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Working on this year's issue of Pace Layers has given me a welcome dose of perspective during uncertain times. I hope it'll do the same for you.
Times of fragmentation call for a legible sense of order.
We’re pleased to introduce the 02025 issue of Pace Layers, Long Now’s annual print journal of long-term thinking. It explores the ancient past and distant future of the present moment.
A preview of what's inside ->
We’re pleased to introduce the 02025 issue of Pace Layers, Long Now’s annual print journal of long-term thinking. It explores the ancient past and distant future of the present moment.
A preview of what's inside ->
November 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Working on this year's issue of Pace Layers has given me a welcome dose of perspective during uncertain times. I hope it'll do the same for you.
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Look what just arrived!
This year’s edition of Pace Layers, the anthology of the @longnow.org Foundation.
I’ve got an essay on the surprising origins of public transit. In great company in this one!
longnow.org/ideas/pace-l...
This year’s edition of Pace Layers, the anthology of the @longnow.org Foundation.
I’ve got an essay on the surprising origins of public transit. In great company in this one!
longnow.org/ideas/pace-l...
November 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Look what just arrived!
This year’s edition of Pace Layers, the anthology of the @longnow.org Foundation.
I’ve got an essay on the surprising origins of public transit. In great company in this one!
longnow.org/ideas/pace-l...
This year’s edition of Pace Layers, the anthology of the @longnow.org Foundation.
I’ve got an essay on the surprising origins of public transit. In great company in this one!
longnow.org/ideas/pace-l...
Times of fragmentation call for a legible sense of order.
We’re pleased to introduce the 02025 issue of Pace Layers, Long Now’s annual print journal of long-term thinking. It explores the ancient past and distant future of the present moment.
A preview of what's inside ->
We’re pleased to introduce the 02025 issue of Pace Layers, Long Now’s annual print journal of long-term thinking. It explores the ancient past and distant future of the present moment.
A preview of what's inside ->
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Times of fragmentation call for a legible sense of order.
We’re pleased to introduce the 02025 issue of Pace Layers, Long Now’s annual print journal of long-term thinking. It explores the ancient past and distant future of the present moment.
A preview of what's inside ->
We’re pleased to introduce the 02025 issue of Pace Layers, Long Now’s annual print journal of long-term thinking. It explores the ancient past and distant future of the present moment.
A preview of what's inside ->
Now that you've preordered @stewartbrand.bsky.social's new book, read an exclusive excerpt on Ideas, the Long Now blog: longnow.org/ideas/the-es...
November 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Now that you've preordered @stewartbrand.bsky.social's new book, read an exclusive excerpt on Ideas, the Long Now blog: longnow.org/ideas/the-es...
The newest book from Long Now cofounder @stewartbrand.bsky.social is now available from @stripepress.bsky.social.
Brand explores why taking responsibility for maintaining something—a motorcycle, a monument, or our very planet—can be a radical act.
Preorder here: press.stripe.com/maintenance-...
Brand explores why taking responsibility for maintaining something—a motorcycle, a monument, or our very planet—can be a radical act.
Preorder here: press.stripe.com/maintenance-...
Stripe Press — Maintenance
An in-depth exploration of maintenance, and a powerful argument for its civilizational importance.
press.stripe.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:13 PM
The newest book from Long Now cofounder @stewartbrand.bsky.social is now available from @stripepress.bsky.social.
Brand explores why taking responsibility for maintaining something—a motorcycle, a monument, or our very planet—can be a radical act.
Preorder here: press.stripe.com/maintenance-...
Brand explores why taking responsibility for maintaining something—a motorcycle, a monument, or our very planet—can be a radical act.
Preorder here: press.stripe.com/maintenance-...
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Very excited to welcome this exceptional group to Long Now’s Council! ✨✨
Today, we are thrilled to launch The Council at Long Now.
The Council is the new advisory body bringing together distinguished leaders across a diverse range of fields to serve as ambassadors for long-term thinking and responsibility.
The Council is the new advisory body bringing together distinguished leaders across a diverse range of fields to serve as ambassadors for long-term thinking and responsibility.
November 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Very excited to welcome this exceptional group to Long Now’s Council! ✨✨
Today, we're also thrilled to add three new members to our Board of Directors. Welcome Mick, Joe, and Lisa, we are honored to have you at the helm with us.
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Today, we're also thrilled to add three new members to our Board of Directors. Welcome Mick, Joe, and Lisa, we are honored to have you at the helm with us.
Today, we are thrilled to launch The Council at Long Now.
The Council is the new advisory body bringing together distinguished leaders across a diverse range of fields to serve as ambassadors for long-term thinking and responsibility.
The Council is the new advisory body bringing together distinguished leaders across a diverse range of fields to serve as ambassadors for long-term thinking and responsibility.
November 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Today, we are thrilled to launch The Council at Long Now.
The Council is the new advisory body bringing together distinguished leaders across a diverse range of fields to serve as ambassadors for long-term thinking and responsibility.
The Council is the new advisory body bringing together distinguished leaders across a diverse range of fields to serve as ambassadors for long-term thinking and responsibility.
A new Ideas piece by Josh Berson focuses on very human conceptions of meaning and taste.
A beautiful read about attention, finitude, and why meaning is something we hold in common: longnow.org/ideas/on-mea...
A beautiful read about attention, finitude, and why meaning is something we hold in common: longnow.org/ideas/on-mea...
On Meaning
What lends taste its depth as a channel of meaning is that every act of eating evokes in us life’s one certainty, something we share with plants and doctoral students but not LLMs: that it will end.
longnow.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A new Ideas piece by Josh Berson focuses on very human conceptions of meaning and taste.
A beautiful read about attention, finitude, and why meaning is something we hold in common: longnow.org/ideas/on-mea...
A beautiful read about attention, finitude, and why meaning is something we hold in common: longnow.org/ideas/on-mea...
Attention ticket buyers - there are fake accounts selling tickets to the Lost Landscapes event with Rick Prelinger (@footage.bsky.social) please be aware.
Only tickets from the link below are valid:
Only tickets from the link below are valid:
I am delighted to announce that tickets are now available for Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, Year 20! Hope to see you there.
Information and ticket link here: www.cityboxoffice.com/eventperform...
Information and ticket link here: www.cityboxoffice.com/eventperform...
Tickets | Lost Landscapes 02025: YEAR 20! | City Box Office
Check This Out: Get tickets and show information for Lost Landscapes 02025: YEAR 20! - City Box Office
www.cityboxoffice.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Attention ticket buyers - there are fake accounts selling tickets to the Lost Landscapes event with Rick Prelinger (@footage.bsky.social) please be aware.
Only tickets from the link below are valid:
Only tickets from the link below are valid:
[TUNE IN] Tonight (Wed Nov 12, 7PST), @kevinkelly.bsky.social presents @katecrawford.bsky.social:
A Long Now Talk to situate AI within civilization’s long arc of governance, empire, and expansion.
The show is sold out, but you can join us on the livestream here:
A Long Now Talk to situate AI within civilization’s long arc of governance, empire, and expansion.
The show is sold out, but you can join us on the livestream here:
Don’t miss @katecrawford.bsky.social live in San Francisco on Nov 12. Tickets and livestream info here: longnow.org/talks/02025-...
Kate Crawford: Mapping Empires
Launched by Stewart Brand in 02003, Long Now Talks has invited more than 400 leading thinkers to share their civilization-scale ideas.
longnow.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
[TUNE IN] Tonight (Wed Nov 12, 7PST), @kevinkelly.bsky.social presents @katecrawford.bsky.social:
A Long Now Talk to situate AI within civilization’s long arc of governance, empire, and expansion.
The show is sold out, but you can join us on the livestream here:
A Long Now Talk to situate AI within civilization’s long arc of governance, empire, and expansion.
The show is sold out, but you can join us on the livestream here:
When everything feels like it’s falling apart, long-term thinking feels like a luxury. But crisis narrows our attention, leaving little room for reflection or collective action.
Long-term thinking reconnects us with what matters most—it is a shared practice.
Long-term thinking reconnects us with what matters most—it is a shared practice.
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
When everything feels like it’s falling apart, long-term thinking feels like a luxury. But crisis narrows our attention, leaving little room for reflection or collective action.
Long-term thinking reconnects us with what matters most—it is a shared practice.
Long-term thinking reconnects us with what matters most—it is a shared practice.
As the end-of-year hustle approaches, keep this antidote on hand: @jennitaur.bsky.social's exploration of deep attention and how to challenge to our obsession with linear progress
longnow.org/talks/02023-...
longnow.org/talks/02023-...
Jenny Odell: Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
Launched by Stewart Brand in 02003, Long Now Talks has invited more than 400 leading thinkers to share their civilization-scale ideas.
longnow.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
As the end-of-year hustle approaches, keep this antidote on hand: @jennitaur.bsky.social's exploration of deep attention and how to challenge to our obsession with linear progress
longnow.org/talks/02023-...
longnow.org/talks/02023-...
How the brain’s ability to model creates explosions in intelligence, from @blaiseaguera.bsky.social's Long Now Talk.
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
How the brain’s ability to model creates explosions in intelligence, from @blaiseaguera.bsky.social's Long Now Talk.
Mycelium on the moon, biological glue, DNA wire? Lynn Rothschild’s NASA lab is responsible for mindboggling off-planet technologies that could also provide radically sustainable solutions for Earthbound problems.
Watch Lynn Rothschild’s full Long Now Talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=caKc...
Watch Lynn Rothschild’s full Long Now Talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=caKc...
Lynn Rothschild | Nature’s Hardware Store: Building the Future with Biology
YouTube video by The Long Now Foundation
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November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Mycelium on the moon, biological glue, DNA wire? Lynn Rothschild’s NASA lab is responsible for mindboggling off-planet technologies that could also provide radically sustainable solutions for Earthbound problems.
Watch Lynn Rothschild’s full Long Now Talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=caKc...
Watch Lynn Rothschild’s full Long Now Talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=caKc...
Lost Landscapes celebrates 20 years of film ephemera!
Join us for a 20th anniversary screening, featuring 300 newly-unearthed archival films creating a panorama of 128 years of SF history.
Join us for a 20th anniversary screening, featuring 300 newly-unearthed archival films creating a panorama of 128 years of SF history.
I am delighted to announce that tickets are now available for Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, Year 20! Hope to see you there.
Information and ticket link here: www.cityboxoffice.com/eventperform...
Information and ticket link here: www.cityboxoffice.com/eventperform...
Tickets | Lost Landscapes 02025: YEAR 20! | City Box Office
Check This Out: Get tickets and show information for Lost Landscapes 02025: YEAR 20! - City Box Office
www.cityboxoffice.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Lost Landscapes celebrates 20 years of film ephemera!
Join us for a 20th anniversary screening, featuring 300 newly-unearthed archival films creating a panorama of 128 years of SF history.
Join us for a 20th anniversary screening, featuring 300 newly-unearthed archival films creating a panorama of 128 years of SF history.
Exciting update: @kevinkelly.bsky.social, founding editor of WIRED and long-time friend of Long Now, will be our guest host for the Kate Crawford Talk on Nov 12.
Tickets are going fast, join us!
Tickets are going fast, join us!
Don’t miss @katecrawford.bsky.social live in San Francisco on Nov 12. Tickets and livestream info here: longnow.org/talks/02025-...
Kate Crawford: Mapping Empires
Launched by Stewart Brand in 02003, Long Now Talks has invited more than 400 leading thinkers to share their civilization-scale ideas.
longnow.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Exciting update: @kevinkelly.bsky.social, founding editor of WIRED and long-time friend of Long Now, will be our guest host for the Kate Crawford Talk on Nov 12.
Tickets are going fast, join us!
Tickets are going fast, join us!
In the latest Ideas piece, track the production of the Amazon Echo—from rare earth minerals to data center. Authors @katecrawford.bsky.social and Vladan Joler create an anatomical map of human labor, data, and planetary resources: longnow.org/ideas/anatom...
Anatomy of an AI System
The Amazon Echo as an anatomical map of human labor, data and planetary resources
longnow.org
October 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
In the latest Ideas piece, track the production of the Amazon Echo—from rare earth minerals to data center. Authors @katecrawford.bsky.social and Vladan Joler create an anatomical map of human labor, data, and planetary resources: longnow.org/ideas/anatom...
Did you know the lifetime of Whole Earth Catalog, starting in 01968, has been archived, preserved, and indexed? Thanks to @archive.org and Grey Area you can read nearly every issue at wholeearth.info
October 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Did you know the lifetime of Whole Earth Catalog, starting in 01968, has been archived, preserved, and indexed? Thanks to @archive.org and Grey Area you can read nearly every issue at wholeearth.info
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This video is really important.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...
It connects the dots between A.I. and climate disasters and is just a perfectly crafted piece of investigation and exposition.
@katecrawford.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...
It connects the dots between A.I. and climate disasters and is just a perfectly crafted piece of investigation and exposition.
@katecrawford.bsky.social
Opinion | A.I.’s Environmental Impact Will Threaten Its Own Supply Chain
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
This video is really important.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...
It connects the dots between A.I. and climate disasters and is just a perfectly crafted piece of investigation and exposition.
@katecrawford.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...
It connects the dots between A.I. and climate disasters and is just a perfectly crafted piece of investigation and exposition.
@katecrawford.bsky.social
Congratulations to our friends at @archive.org! Oct 22 is officially Internet Archive Day. 1 trillion pages archived, an extraordinary accomplishment.
It's official! 🏛️ 🎉 The SF Board of Supervisors has unanimously declared October 22, 2025 as Internet Archive Day — celebrating our 1️⃣ trillion webpages preserved & our mission to provide universal access to all knowledge.
Learn more & celebrate with us tonight! ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h...
Learn more & celebrate with us tonight! ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/22/h...
October 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Congratulations to our friends at @archive.org! Oct 22 is officially Internet Archive Day. 1 trillion pages archived, an extraordinary accomplishment.
A Long Now Talk to help situate our present technological moment within civilization’s long arc of governance, empire, and expansion, with AI scholar @katecrawford.bsky.social.
Nov 12, 02025, 7pm
More event info + tickets: longnow.org/talks/02025-...
Nov 12, 02025, 7pm
More event info + tickets: longnow.org/talks/02025-...
October 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A Long Now Talk to help situate our present technological moment within civilization’s long arc of governance, empire, and expansion, with AI scholar @katecrawford.bsky.social.
Nov 12, 02025, 7pm
More event info + tickets: longnow.org/talks/02025-...
Nov 12, 02025, 7pm
More event info + tickets: longnow.org/talks/02025-...
[Ticket announcement] Award-winning author, artist & AI scholar @katecrawford.bsky.social joins us live in SF on Nov. 12. She will explore how past infrastructures and ideologies shape today’s AI tools, and help us imagine a future that is more sustainable & accountable. longnow.org/talks/02025-...
Kate Crawford: Mapping Empires
Launched by Stewart Brand in 02003, Long Now Talks has invited more than 400 leading thinkers to share their civilization-scale ideas.
longnow.org
October 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
[Ticket announcement] Award-winning author, artist & AI scholar @katecrawford.bsky.social joins us live in SF on Nov. 12. She will explore how past infrastructures and ideologies shape today’s AI tools, and help us imagine a future that is more sustainable & accountable. longnow.org/talks/02025-...