Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFred Lyon: San Francisco Time: The Photography of Fred Lyon
[Fred Lyon](http://www.fredlyon.com/) is a time traveler with a camera and tales to tell. At 94-years-old, this former LIFE magazine photographer and…
6 years, 2 months ago
Caroline Winterer: The Art and Science of Deep Time: Conceiving the Inconceivable in the 19th Century
The ambition to think on the scale of thousands, millions, even billion of years emerged in the 19th century. Historian and author [Caroline Winterer…
6 years, 2 months ago
Tiffany Shlain: 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week
As the world is becoming more technologically connected, finding time for oneself and face-to-face connections is becoming increasingly difficult. Ma…
6 years, 3 months ago
Bina Venkataraman: Long-Term Thinking in a Distracted World
What does practical long-term thinking look like? Bina Venkataraman’s new book, [_The Optimist's Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age_](https:…
6 years, 3 months ago
Kelly Wanser: Is Reflecting Sunlight from the Atmosphere a Bridge to the Future?
Recent data shows damage from climate change rapidly increasing. There are many scientifically proposed methods (from the U.S. National Academy of Sc…
6 years, 3 months ago
Esther Dyson: The Short Now: What Addiction, Day Trading, and Most of Society’s Ills Have in Common
Long Now board member Esther Dyson shares her ongoing work to move communities away from short-term thinking and into health. In conversation with pr…
6 years, 3 months ago
Adrienne Mayor: Gods and Robots: Ancient Dreams of Technology
Millennia before engineering or software, robots and artificial intelligence were brought to life in Greek myths. The author of [_Gods and Robots Myt…
6 years, 4 months ago
Annalee Newitz: We're in the Wrong Timeline
[_Annalee Newitz's_](https://www.techsploitation.com/) new novel, [_The Future of Another Timeline_](https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780765392121), i…
6 years, 4 months ago
Jacob Ward: The Loop: Decision Technology and How to Resist It
If we use AI to write our favorite music for us, will we lose the ability to write music ourselves? If an AI coach keeps divorced parents from arguin…
6 years, 4 months ago
Andrew McAfee: More From Less
Andrew McAfee draws on a wide range of evidence to show that the world is already on the right track toward long-term health when it combines 1) tech…
6 years, 4 months ago