Podcast Episodes
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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 explore…
Published on 13 hours ago
Kim Carson: Inspired by Intelligence
What if AI is not here actually to replace us, but to remind us who we actually are? That was the question at the heart of Kim Carson’s Long Now Talk. In _Inspired by Intelligence: Purpose and Creati…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Sara Imari Walker: An Informational Theory of Life
“What is life?” In her Long Now Talk, astrobiologist and theoretical physicist Sara Imari Walker explores the many dimensions of that seemingly simple question. Starting from the simplest precursors…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson: Abundance
As they look upon the United States of America in 02025, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson see a country wrought by a half-century of failed governance. They see states and cities theoretically committed…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Kim Stanley Robinson & Stephen Heintz: A Logic For The Future
Stephen Heintz and Kim Stanley Robinson say we live in an “Age of Turbulence.” Looking around our geopolitical situation, it’s easy to see what they mean. Faced with the ever-growing threat of climat…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
K Allado-McDowell: On Neural Media
How will AI shape our understanding of our creativity and ourselves? In February, artist and technologist K Allado-McDowell delivered a fascinating Long Now Talk that explored the dimensions of Neur…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Ahmed Best: Feel The Future
When you feel the future, how do you share that feeling in order to build community? Ahmed Best’s Long Now Talk was the first in the more-than-twenty-year history of Long Now Talks to be held on Vale…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
Benjamin Bratton: A Philosophy of Planetary Computation
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. In his Long Now Talk, Philosopher…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Roman Krznaric & Kate Raworth: What Doughnut Economics Can Learn From History
Social philosopher Roman Krznaric and renegade economist Kate Raworth explore how we can survive and thrive by looking to the past for clues on how to build more regenerative economic frameworks. Dou…
Published on 9 months, 4 weeks ago
Neal Stephenson: Polostan
Neal Stephenson, visionary speculative fiction author and long-time friend of Long Now, joined us for a conversation with journalist Charles C. Mann on the research behind his new novel _Polostan_ , …
Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago