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Back to SearchBecky Chambers & Annalee Newitz: Resisting Dystopia
One of our guiding principles at Long Now is that in order to get to a future that we want to live in, we must first be able to imagine it. For many, it is much easier to imagine a dystopia than a t…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Jenny Odell: Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
Jenny Odell describes _Saving Time_, her second book and the inspiration for her first Long Now Talk, as a “panoramic assault on nihilism.” The particular nihilism that Odell confronts is rooted in w…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Ismail Ali: Psychedelics: History at the Crossroads
Psychedelics and other mind-altering substances have been used for thousands of years across the world in religious, spiritual, celebratory, and healing contexts. Despite a half century of a "War on …
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Ryan North: How to Invent Everything
How would someone fare if they were dropped into a randomly chosen period in history? Would they have any relevant knowledge to share, or ability to invent crucial technologies given the period's con…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Adam Rogers: Full Spectrum: The Science of Color and Modern Human Perception
Tracing an arc from the earliest humans to our digitized, synthesized present and future, Adam Rogers shows the expansive human quest for the understanding, creation and use of color. We meet our anc…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Parag Khanna: Why Mobility is Destiny
The map of humanity isn’t settled -- not now, not ever. In the 60,000 years since people began spreading across the continents, a recurring feature of human civilization has been mobility—the ever-co…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Eric Debrah Otchere: Sonic Spaces
Eric Debrah Otchere's research revolves around the power of music in the context of work; covering an ambitious range from ethnographic research on Ghanaian indigenous fishing culture to personalized…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Wade Davis: Activist Anthropology
What is the role and purpose of Anthropology today? Wade Davis looks back at the pioneering work of Franz Boas in the early 20th century that upended long-held Western assumptions on race & gender, a…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Johanna Hoffman: Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need
Urbanist, researcher and writer Johanna Hoffman gave a Long Now Talk about speculative futures — a powerful set of tools that can reorient urban development help us dream and build more resilient, eq…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Kate Darling: The New Breed
Robot ethicist Kate Darling offers a nuanced and smart take on our relationships to robots and the increasing presence they will have in our lives. From a social, legal, and ethical perspective, she …
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago