Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAlexander Rose: Continuity: Discovering the Lessons behind the World’s Longest-lived Organizations
One of [Long Now](https://longnow.org/)’s founding premises is that humanity’s most significant challenges require long-term solutions, including ins…
4 years, 7 months ago
Nathaniel Rich, Ben Novak, & Ryan Phelan: Second Nature: Green Rabbits, Passenger Pigeons, Cloned Ferrets, and the Birth of a New Ecology
Reporter and writer Nathaniel Rich delves deep into conversation with [Revive & Restore](https://reviverestore.org/)'s Ryan Phelan and Ben Novak to d…
4 years, 8 months ago
Tim O'Reilly: What’s The Future? It’s Up to Us.
Based on four decades in technology and media, constantly in the eye of innovation, O’Reilly is starting vital conversations about our future. Be rea…
5 years, 1 month ago
Peter Leyden: The Transformation: A Future History of the World from 02020 to 02050
A compelling case can be made that we are in the early stages of another tech and economic boom in the next 30 years that will help solve our era’s b…
5 years, 2 months ago
Jason Tester: Queering the Future: How LGBTQ Foresight Can Benefit All
Jason Tester asks us to see the powerful potential of "queering the future" - how looking at the future through a lens of difference and openness can…
5 years, 2 months ago
Scurvy Salon: The History & Science of a Persistent Malady
A special night of short talks about the long history and scientific background behind a most persistent malady. And the drinks that can help keep it…
5 years, 3 months ago
Rick Prelinger: Bay Area Telecommunications Infrastructure History
Rick Prelinger uncovers the diverse histories of Bay Area telecommunications infrastructure: telephone, radio, television, data, image and sound. A t…
5 years, 3 months ago
James Nestor: The Future of Breathing
Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, journa…
5 years, 4 months ago
Miles Traer: The Geological Reveal: How the Rock Record Shows Our Relationship to the Natural World
Before us, after us, and without our realizing it: geology, ecology, and biology uniquely record human activity. Geoscientist Miles Traer, co-host of…
5 years, 4 months ago
Nadia Eghbal: The Making and Maintenance of our Open Source Infrastructure
Nadia Eghbal is particularly interested in infrastructure, governance, and the economics of the internet - and how the dynamics of these subjects pla…
5 years, 4 months ago