Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGeoffrey B West: The Universal Laws of Growth and Pace
## Why cities live forever **West focussed on cities** in his discussion of the newly discovered exponential scaling laws that govern everything aliv…
8 years, 11 months ago
Frank Ostaseski: What the Dying Teach the Living
## Death’s Honesty **In one of Long Now’s most moving talks** , Ostaseski began: “I’m not romantic about dying. This is the hardest work you will eve…
9 years ago
Bjorn Lomborg: From Feel-Good to High-Yield Good: How to Improve Philanthropy and Aid
## Doing Good Better [](https://media.longnow.org/files/2/lomborghaiti.jpg) **Lomborg open…
9 years, 1 month ago
Jennifer Pahlka: Fixing Government: Bottom Up and Outside In
## Toward agile government Pahlka quoted: “Efficiency in government is a matter of social justice.” (Mayor John Norquist) It is at the often maddenin…
9 years, 3 months ago
Steven Johnson: Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
## Inventing toward delight Humanity has been inventing toward delight for a long time. Johnson began with a slide of shell beads found in Morocco th…
9 years, 3 months ago
Douglas Coupland: The Extreme Present
### Future now **“The present and the future** now coexist at the same time,” Coupland began. “It’s why time doesn’t feel like time any more. We’re i…
9 years, 6 months ago
David Eagleman: The Brain and The Now
### The Brain’s Now Our perception of time raises all sorts of questions, Eagleman began. “Why does time seem to slow down when you’re scared? And wh…
9 years, 6 months ago
Jonathan Rose: The Well Tempered City
### Coherent cities What holds a city together? Rose noted that the earliest cities were built around a temple and the spirituality it embodied. As t…
9 years, 7 months ago
Seth Lloyd: Quantum Computer Reality
### Quantum Computer Reality The 15th-century Renaissance was triggered, Lloyd began, by a flood of new information which changed how people thought …
9 years, 8 months ago
Kevin Kelly: The Next 30 Digital Years
## Digital is just getting started In Kevin Kelly’s view, a dozen “inevitable” trends will drive the next 30 years of digital progress. Artificial sm…
9 years, 9 months ago