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Back to SearchAdam 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 underst…
3 years, 2 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 o…
3 years, 2 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 G…
3 years, 2 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…
3 years, 3 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 deve…
3 years, 3 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. F…
3 years, 3 months ago
Suzanne Simard: Mother Trees and the Social Forest
Forest Ecologist Suzanne Simard reveals that trees are part of a complex, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatur…
3 years, 3 months ago
Alicia Eggert: This Moment Used To Be The Future
In _The Clock of the Long Now_, Long Now founder Stewart Brand wrote, in response to Zen poet Gary Snyder, the following musing on the nature of time…
3 years, 4 months ago
Jonathan Haidt, Kevin Kelly, & Stewart Brand: Democracy in the Next Cycle of History
Jonathan Haidt sees that we have entered a social-psychological phase change that was initiated in 02009 when social media platforms introduced sever…
3 years, 6 months ago
Michael Tubbs: Upsetting the Setup: Creating a California for All
Governance moves slow. The work of the politician and the public servant ought to inherently be one of long-term thinking — of taking in concerns bo…
3 years, 8 months ago