Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJared Diamond: How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed
### On failing to think long-term Sophisticated societies from time to time collapse utterly, often leaving traces of a civilization that was at a pr…
20 years, 9 months ago
Robert Neuwirth: The 21st Century Medieval City
### World squatter reality Humanity is urbanizing at a world-changing pace and in a world-changing way. A billion squatters are re-inventing their li…
20 years, 10 months ago
: Cities & Time
### A world made of cities Cities are the human organizations with the greatest longevity but also the fastest rate of change. Just now the world is …
21 years ago
Spencer Beebe: Very Long-term Very Large-scale Biomimicry
### The rainforests of home Spencer Beebe is founder and head of Ecotrust, the Portland-based organization that is setting in motion a permanently pr…
21 years, 1 month ago
Roger Kennedy: The Political History of North America from 25,000 BC to 12,000 AD
### Ancient American politics Roger Kennedy, the former head of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and former Director of the US Nat…
21 years, 2 months ago
James Carse: Religious War In Light of the Infinite Game
### Finite and infinite games Countless readers have been hooked by the opening line of James P. Carse's [_Finite and Infinite Games_](http://www.ama…
21 years, 3 months ago
Ken Dychtwald: The Consequences of Human Life Extension
### What long life means Ken Dychtwald gave a terrific talk Friday evening to a standing-room audience on "The Consequences of Human Life Extension."…
21 years, 4 months ago
Michael West: The Prospects of Human Life Extension
### Ever longer life Our germline cells (eggs and sperm) are already immortal. What if the rest of the cells of our body could acquire the same abili…
21 years, 5 months ago
Paul Hawken: The Long Green
### The long green The environmental movement has moved on. It has become so deep and wide that it adds up to something new entirely, still unnamed. …
21 years, 6 months ago