Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDanny Hillis: Progress on the 10,000-year Clock
"How's the Clock coming?" Everyone connected with The Long Now Foundation or with Danny Hillis hears that question all the time. "Progress on the 10,…
21 years, 7 months ago
Phillip Longman: The Depopulation Problem
### The depopulation problem Full PDF of the talk [here](http://static.longnow.org/seminars/020040813-longman/salt-020040813-longman.pdf "PDF"), slid…
21 years, 8 months ago
Jill Tarter: The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence: Necessarily a Long-term Strategy
### The long search "The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence: Necessarily a Long-term Strategy" is the title for Jill Tarter's Seminar About Lo…
21 years, 9 months ago
Bruce Sterling: The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole
One reason lots of people don't want to think long term these days is because technology keeps accelerating so rapidly, we assume the world will beco…
21 years, 10 months ago
David Rumsey: Mapping Time
### Maps and time David Rumsey's spectacularly illustrated lecture, "Mapping Time" is not just about maps. It is the future of data and knowledge han…
21 years, 11 months ago
Daniel Janzen: Third World Conservation: It's ALL Gardening
### Mega gardening Big as life and twice as opinionated, the renowned preservation biologist Daniel Janzen spoke for The Long Now on Friday, April 9,…
22 years ago
Rusty Schweickart: The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years
### Asteroid threat report Schweickart filled the hall with some 240 at the Presidio Officers Club and gave a dazzling lecture. He left the next day …
22 years, 1 month ago
James Dewar: Long-term Policy Analysis
### Long-term policy analysis Dewar is head of RAND’s Pardee Center on very long-term policy—35 to 200 years For over half a century the RAND Corpora…
22 years, 2 months ago
George Dyson: There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing
### Long-term thinking about large-scale computing Ever since his 1997 breakthrough book, _Darwin Among the Machines_ , Dyson has become regarded as …
22 years, 3 months ago
Peter Schwartz: The Art Of The Really Long View
### The art of the really long view For such a weighty subject there was a lot of guffawing going on in the Seminar Thursday night. The topic was "Th…
22 years, 4 months ago