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  • Anne Heggli, Jonathon Keats, & Adam Csank: Art & Science at the Nevada Bristlecone Preserve

    October 8, 2026 · 54 min

    In a remote corner of the driest state in the country, Anne Heggli's team has been keeping watch over some of Earth’s oldest beings. Since 02012, Heggli’s NevCAN network has recorded conditions at the Nevada Bristlecone Preserve every…

  • (From the archive) Jonathon Keats: Envisioning Deep Time

    September 14, 2026 · 53 min

    Today, we’re going back in the Long Now archives for a talk from artist and experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats, originally recorded on Apr 7, 02015. You’ll hear his original pitch for the monumental art project Centuries of the…

  • Bayo Akomolafe: The Untimely

    May 20, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

    In his Talk, poet-philosopher Bayo Akomolafe presented a riveting critique of linear time, and gave a persuasive invitation to step sideways, to slow down, to notice the cracks in our temporal systems. Through Yoruba cosmology, slave ship…

  • Claire Isabel Webb & Nina Miolane: The Geometry of Consciousness

    May 20, 2026 · 51 min

    **This evening is made possible with generous support from the John Templeton Foundation.** How do the binary electronic signals of neurons give rise to subjective experience? Mathematician and machine learning researcher Nina Miolane…

  • Eric Ries: Incorruptible by Design

    April 30, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

    What if we redefined “profit” as maximizing human flourishing? Eric Ries has seen the corrosive effects of shareholder primacy at every company he’s worked with. Mission-driven companies, however, are the outliers: demonstrating stronger…

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  • Melody Jue: Ocean Memory

    April 9, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

    The ocean is not empty. It is a vast storage facility of memory agents. Ocean bodies use the chemical signatures of seawater for memory and intelligence in ways we can barely imagine. In her Talk, Melody Jue said our struggle to understand…

  • Stefan Sagmeister: Finally, something good.

    March 12, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

    "The world is terrible, and the world is better," Stefan Sagmeister said. "Both can be true." It all depends on perspective. In his Long Now Talk, Finally, something good, Sagmeister urged us to zoom out. The faster the news cycle spins…

  • Indy Johar: Civilizational Optioneering

    February 12, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

    Indy Johar pointed to the first photographs of the whole Earth taken from space. “This was the moment the planet became self-aware." This planetary consciousness came with new responsibility, he argued. The task before us is not simply to…

  • Kate Crawford: Mapping Empires

    December 11, 2025 · 1 hr 15 min

    Kate Crawford’s Long Now Talk traces an historical arc from Renaissance perspective to AI image models, illustrating how shifts in representational power shape empires, economies—even our shared sense of reality. During the talk, Crawford…

  • Lynn Rothschild: Nature’s Hardware Store

    November 5, 2025 · 1 hr 16 min

    What if the solutions to humanity’s greatest challenges — on Earth and beyond — have already been invented by nature? In this forward-looking talk, evolutionary biologist and astrobiologist Dr. Lynn Rothschild explores how life’s patterns…

  • Blaise Agüera y Arcas: What is Intelligence?

    October 9, 2025 · 1 hr 15 min

    Blaise Agüera y Arcas’s talk took us on a journey through What is Intelligence?, his groundbreaking new work connecting the evolutionary dots between life, computation, and symbiogenesis. He explores how, in our symbiotic world, things…

  • Kim Carson: Inspired by Intelligence

    June 13, 2025 · 48 min

    **Kim Carson's new book [_Inspired by Intelligence: From Burnout to Becoming_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJGYQHN6?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_GRXNCCGS6G4C982ADDQD&ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_GRXNCCGS6G4C982ADDQD&social_…

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The Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility. Explore hundreds of lectures and conversations from scientists, historians, artists, entrepreneurs, and more through The Long Now Foundation's award-winning Long Now Talks, started in 02003 by Long Now co-founder Stewart Brand (creator of the Whole Earth Catalog). Past speakers include Brian Eno, Neal Stephenson, Jenny Odell, Daniel Kahneman, Suzanne Simard, Jennifer Pahlka, Kim Stanley Robinson, and many more. Watch video of these talks at https://longnow.org/talks