Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDrew Endy & Jim Thomas: Synthetic Biology Debate
### Terms of Biocontainment "I want to develop tools that make biology easy to engineer," Drew Endy began. The first purpose is better understanding …
17 years, 5 months ago
Huey Johnson: Green Planning at Nation Scale
### Green Plans Green Plans, said Johnson, are government-run environmental programs that rise to the scale and longevity of environmental problems. …
17 years, 6 months ago
Peter Diamandis: Long-term X-Prizes
### Beyond Audacious Pursuing the idea of “revolution through competition” via huge-purse prizes was inspired for Peter Diamandis by reading about th…
17 years, 7 months ago
Neal Stephenson: ANATHEM Book Launch Event
### _Anathem_ book launch Neal Stephenson's nearly thousand page tome [_Anathem_](https://longnow.org/anathem/) was inspired in part by Long Now's [1…
17 years, 7 months ago
Daniel Suarez: Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality
### Bot-dominated Reality [Daniel Suarez, originally published as Leinad Zaurus, delivered a talk on the themes developed in his (originally self pub…
17 years, 8 months ago
Edward Burtynsky: The 10,000-year Gallery
### Stone Ink Gallery Photographer Edward Burtynsky made a formal proposal for a permanent art gallery in the chamber that encloses the 10,000-year C…
17 years, 9 months ago
Paul Ehrlich: The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment
### Becoming a Benign Dominant To track how humans became Earth's dominant animal, Ehrlich began with a photo of a tarsier in a tree. The little prim…
17 years, 10 months ago
Iqbal Quadir: Technology Empowers the Poorest
### Making Money WITH the Poor When Iqbal Quadir applied to US colleges from his home town in Bangladesh he was surprised to discover that not all Am…
17 years, 11 months ago
Niall Ferguson & Peter Schwartz: Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress
### Past vs. Future In what turned out to be a riveting evening, historian Niall Ferguson and futurist Peter Schwartz fire-hosed each other with enou…
18 years ago
Craig Venter: Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention
### Decoding and recoding life To really read DNA accurately and understand it thoroughly, you need to be able to write it from scratch and make it l…
18 years, 2 months ago