The Long Now Foundation | Seminars about Long-term Thinking
April 1, 2011
Source: The Long Now Foundation
The Long Now Foundation’s monthly Seminars were started in 2003 to build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking; to help nudge civilization toward our goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare. A monthly seminar series, hosted by Stewart Brand.
Seminars about Long Thinking podcast index
2012 Catalog
March 2013 | George Dyson: No Time Is There — The Digital Universe and Why Things Appear To Be Speeding Up
February 2013 | Chris Anderson: The Makers Revolution
January 2013 | 
December 2012 | Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 7
November 2012 | Peter Warshall: Enchanted by the Sun: The CoEvolution of Light, Life, and Color on Earth
November 2012 | Lazar Kunstmann, Jon Lackman: Preservation without Permission: the Paris Urban eXperiment
October 2012 | Steven Pinker: The Decline of Violence
September 2012 | Tim O’Reilly: Birth of the Global Mind
August 2012 | Elaine Pagels: The Truth About the Book of Revelations
July 2012 | 
June 2012 | Benjamin Barber: If Mayors Ruled the World
May 2012 | 
April 2012 | 
April 2012 | Edward O. Wilson: The Social Conquest of Earth
March 2012 | 
February 2012 | 
January 2012 | 2011 Catalog
December 2011 | Rick Prelinger: “Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 6”
November 2011 | Brewster Kahle: “Universal Access to All Knowledge”
October 2011 | Laura Cunningham: “Ten Millennia of California Ecology”
September 2011 | Timothy Ferriss: “Accelerated Learning in Accelerated Times”
July 2011 | Geoffrey B. West: “Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster”
June 2011 | Peter Kareiva: “Conservation in the Real World”
May 2011 | Tim Flannery: “Here on Earth”
April 2011 | Ian Morris: “Why the West Rules – For Now”
March 2011 | Matt Ridley: “Deep Optimism”
February 2011 | Mary Catherine Bateson: “Live Longer, Think Longer”
January 2011 | Philip K. Howard: “Fixing Broken Government”
2010 Catalog
December 2010 | Rick Prelinger: “Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 5”
November 2010 | Rachel Sussman: “The World’s Oldest Living Organisms”
October 2010 | Lera Boroditsky: “How Language Shapes Thought”
October 2010 | Stewart Brand, Jane McGonigal: “Long Conversation 19 of 19”
October 2010 | Jane McGonigal, Tiffany Shlain: “Long Conversation 18 of 19”
October 2010 | Paul Hawken, Tiffany Shlain: “Long Conversation 17 of 19”
October 2010 | Paul Hawken, Katherine Fulton: “Long Conversation 16 of 19”
October 2010 | Katherine Fulton, Stuart Candy: “Long Conversation 15 of 19”
October 2010 | Stuart Candy, Danese Cooper: “Long Conversation 14 of 19”
October 2010 | Peter Schwartz, Danese Cooper: “Long Conversation 13 of 19”
October 2010 | Peter Schwartz, Pete Worden: “Long Conversation 12 of 19”
October 2010 | Ken Foster, Pete Worden: “Long Conversation 11 of 19”
October 2010 | Melissa Alexander, Ken Foster: “Long Conversation 10 of 19”
October 2010 | Melissa Alexander, Ken Wilson: “Long Conversation 9 of 19”
October 2010 | John Perry Barlow, Ken Wilson: “Long Conversation 8 of 19”
October 2010 | John Perry Barlow, Violet Blue: “Long Conversation 7 of 19”
October 2010 | Violet Blue, Robin Sloan: “Long Conversation 6 of 19”
October 2010 | Jill Tarter, Robin Sloan: “Long Conversation 5 of 19”
October 2010 | Jill Tarter, Emily Levine: “Long Conversation 4 of 19”
October 2010 | Saul Griffith, Emily Levine: “Long Conversation 3 of 19”
October 2010 | Saul Griffith, Jem Finer: “Long Conversation 2 of 19”
October 2010 | Stewart Brand, Jem Finer: “Long Conversation 1 of 19”
October 2010 | Nineteen Speakers: “Long Conversation”
September 2010 | Richard Rhodes: “Twilight of the Bombs”
August 2010 | Martin Rees: “Life’s Future in the Cosmos”
July 2010 | Jesse Schell: “Visions of the Gamepocalypse”
July 2010 | Frank Gavin: “Five Ways to Use History Well”
June 2010 | Ed Moses: “Clean Fusion Power This Decade”
May 2010 | Nils Gilman: “Deviant Globalization”
April 2010 | 
March 2010 | Beth Noveck: “Transparent Government”
February 2010 | Alan Weisman: “World Without Us, World With Us”
Febraury 2010 | Brian Eno, Stewart Brand, Alexander Rose: “Long Finance: The Enduring Value Conference”
January 2010 | 2009 Catalog
December 2009 | Rick Prelinger: “Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4”
November 2009 | Sander van der Leeuw: “The Archaeology of Innovation”
October 2009 | Stewart Brand: “Rethinking Green”
September 2009 | Arthur Ganson: “Machines and the Breath of Time”
August 2009 | Wayne Clough: “Smithsonian Forever”
July 2009 | Pamela Ronald, Raoul Adamchak: “Organically Grown and Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future”
June 2009 | 
May 2009 | Michael Pollan: “Deep Agriculture”
April 2009 Gavin Newsom: “Cities and Time”
March 2009 | 
February 2009 | Dmitry Orlov: “Social Collapse Best Practices”
January 2009 | Saul Griffith: “Climate Change Recalculated”
2008 Catalog
December 2008 | Rick Prelinger: “Lost Landscapes of San Francisco”
November 2008 | Drew Endy, Jim Thomas: “Synthetic Biology Debate”
October 2008 | Huey Johnson: “Green Planning at Nation Scale”
September 2008 | Peter Diamandis: “Long-term X-Prizes”
September 2008 | Neal Stephenson: “ANATHEM Book Launch Event”
August 2008 | 
July 2008 | Edward Burtynsky: “The 10,000-year Gallery”
June 2008 | 
May 2008 | 
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March 2008 | 
February 2008 | 
January 2008 | 2007 Catalog
December 2007 | Jon Ippolito, Joline Blais: “At the Edge of Art”
November 2007 | Rosabeth Moss Kanter: “Enduring Principles for Changing Times”
October 2007 | Juan Enriquez: “Mapping the Frontier of Knowledge”
September 2007 | Gwyneth Cravens, Rip Anderson: “Power to Save the World”
August 2007 | 
July 2007 | 
June 2007 | Paul Hawken: “The New Great Transformation”
May 2007 | Steven Johnson: “The Long Zoom”
April 2007 | Frans Lanting: “Life’s Journey Through Time”
March 2007 | 
February 2007 | Vernor Vinge: “What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen?”
January 2007 | 2006 Catalog
November 2006 | 
November 2006 | Katherine Fulton, Richard Rockefeller, Larry Brilliant: “The Deeper News About the New Philanthropy”
October 2006 | John Baez: “Zooming Out in Time”
September 2006 | 
July 2006 | 
June 2006 | Brian Eno, Will Wright: “Playing with Time”
May 2006 | 
April 2006 | 
March 2006 | Kevin Kelly: “The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method.”
February 2006 | Stephen Lansing: “Perfect Order: A Thousand Years in Bali”
January 2006 | Peter Schwartz, Ralph Cavanagh: “Nuclear Power, Climate Change and the Next 10,000 Years”
2005 Catalog
December 2005 | Sam Harris: “The View from the End of the World”
November 2005 | 
October 2005 | 
September 2005 | Ray Kurzweil: “Kurzweil’s Law”
August 2005 | 
July 2005 | 
June 2005 | 
May 2005 | Will Jarvis: “Time Capsule Behavior”
April 2005 | Stewart Brand: “Cities & Time”
March 2005 | 
February 2005 | 
January 2005 | James Carse: “Religious War In Light of the Infinite Game”
2004 Catalog
December 2004 | Ken Dychtwald: “The Consequences of Human Life Extension”
November 2004 | Michael West: “The Prospects of Human Life Extension”
October 2004 | Paul Hawken: “The Long Green”
September 2004 | Danny Hillis: “Progress on the 10,000-year Clock”
August 2004 | Phillip Longman: “The Depopulation Problem”
July 2004 | Jill Tarter: “The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence: Necessarily a Long-term Strategy”
June 2004 | 
May 2004 | David Rumsey: “Mapping Time”
April 2004 | 
March 2004 | 
February 2004 | James Dewar: “Long-term Policy Analysis”
January 2004 | George Dyson: “There’s Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing”
2003 Catalog
December 2003 | Peter Schwartz: “The Art Of The Really Long View”
November 2003 | Brian Eno: “The Long Now”