Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKim 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 …
1 year 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 …
1 year 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…
1 year, 1 month 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…
1 year, 1 month 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 t…
1 year, 4 months 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 …
1 year, 5 months ago
Alicia Escott & Heidi Quante: The Bureau of Linguistical Reality Performance Lecture
The Bureau of Linguistical Reality is a participatory artwork facilitated by artist Alicia Escott and Heidi Quante which collaborates with the public…
2 years ago
Jonathan Cordero: Indigenous Sovereign Futures
Alternative visions for social change rooted in the frameworks of capitalism and colonialism only reproduce contemporary structures of power. How can…
2 years ago
Denise Hearn: Embodied Economies
Economic policy can seem abstract and distant, but it manifests the physical world, affecting us all. Our economic stories shape our systems, and the…
2 years, 1 month ago
Jared Farmer: Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees
_What really interests me is how long-lived plants allow humans to think about—and emotionally relate to—long units of time. They provide a bridge be…
2 years, 4 months ago