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Audio recordings of all lectures and conversations on long-term thinking produced by the LongNow foundation. Subscribe to the podcasts at http://longnow.org/seminars/podcast. Support the foundation by becoming a member: https://longnow.org/membership.

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Seminars About Long-term Thinking

  • David Byrne: Good News & Sleeping Beauties (2019-06-05) [90 min]
  • Ian McEwan: Machines Like Me (2019-05-05) [96 min]
  • Jeff Goodell: The Water Will Come (2019-04-03) [84 min]
  • Chip Conley: The Modern Elder and the Intergenerational Workplace (2019-03-14) [84 min]
  • John Brockman: Possible Minds (2019-02-26) [96 min]
  • Martin Rees: Prospects for Humanity (2019-01-15) [84 min]
  • Niall Ferguson: Networks and Power (2018-11-20) [90 min]
  • Mary Lou Jepsen: Toward Practical Telepathy (2018-10-30) [89 min]
  • Stewart Brand: Whole Earth Catalog 50th Anniversary Celebration (2018-10-14) [120 min]
  • Julia Galef: Soldiers and Scouts: Why our minds weren't built for truth, and how we can change that (2018-09-13) [92 min]
  • Juan Benet: Long Term Info-structure (2018-08-07) [89 min]
  • George P. Shultz: Perspective (2018-07-17) [63 min]
  • Chris D. Thomas: Are We Initiating The Great Anthropocene Speciation Event? (2018-06-20) [100 min]
  • Benjamin Grant: Overview: Earth and Civilization in the Macroscope (2018-05-23) [81 min]
  • Kishore Mahbubani: Has the West Lost It? Can Asia Save It? (2018-04-24) [91 min]
  • Steven Pinker: A New Enlightenment (2018-03-14) [92 min]
  • Michael Frachetti: Open Source Civilization and the Unexpected Origins of the Silk Road (2018-02-27) [88 min]
  • Charles C. Mann: The Wizard and the Prophet (2018-01-23) [87 min]
  • Elena Bennett: Seeds of a Good Anthropocene (2017-11-21) [79 min]
  • Renee Wegrzyn: Engineering Gene Safety (2017-10-31) [81 min]
  • David Grinspoon: Earth in Human Hands (2017-09-07) [91 min]
  • Nicky Case: Seeing Whole Systems (2017-08-08) [78 min]
  • Carolyn Porco: Searching for Life in the Solar System (2017-07-25) [85 min]
  • James Gleick: Time Travel (2017-06-06) [80 min]
  • Geoffrey B. West: The Universal Laws of Growth and Pace (2017-05-24) [94 min]
  • Frank Ostaseski: What the Dying Teach the Living (2017-04-11) [92 min]
  • Bjorn Lomborg: From Feel-Good to High-Yield Good: How to Improve Philanthropy and Aid (2017-03-14) [90 min]
  • Jennifer Pahlka: Fixing Government: Bottom Up and Outside In (2017-02-02) [84 min]
  • Steven Johnson: Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World (2017-01-05) [83 min]
  • Douglas Coupland: The Extreme Present (2016-11-02) [88 min]
  • David Eagleman: The Brain and The Now (2016-10-05) [81 min]
  • Jonathan Rose: The Well Tempered City (2016-09-21) [84 min]
  • Seth Lloyd: Quantum Computer Reality (2016-08-10) [104 min]
  • Kevin Kelly: The Next 30 Digital Years (2016-07-15) [90 min]
  • Brian Christian: Algorithms to Live By (2016-06-21) [90 min]
  • Walter Mischel: The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control (2016-05-03) [86 min]
  • Priyamvada Natarajan: Solving Dark Matter and Dark Energy (2016-04-12) [91 min]
  • Jane Langdale: Radical Ag: C4 Rice and Beyond (2016-03-15) [87 min]
  • Stephen Pyne: Fire Slow, Fire Fast, Fire Deep (2016-02-10) [84 min]
  • Eric Cline: 1177 B.C.: When Civilization Collapsed (2016-01-12) [87 min]
  • Philip Tetlock: Superforecasting (2015-11-24) [95 min]
  • Andy Weir: The Red Planet for Real (2015-10-28) [70 min]
  • James Fallows: Civilization's Infrastructure (2015-10-07) [81 min]
  • Saul Griffith: Infrastructure and Climate Change (2015-09-22) [101 min]
  • Sara Seager: Other Earths. Other Life. (2015-08-11) [81 min]
  • Ramez Naam: Enhancing Humans, Advancing Humanity (2015-07-23) [86 min]
  • Neil Gaiman: How Stories Last (2015-06-10) [103 min]
  • Beth Shapiro: How to Clone a Mammoth (2015-05-12) [86 min]
  • Michael Shermer: The Long Arc of Moral Progress (2015-04-15) [86 min]
  • Paul Saffo: The Creator Economy (2015-04-01) [83 min]
  • David Keith: Patient Geoengineering (2015-02-18) [88 min]
  • Stewart Brand, Paul Saffo: Pace Layers Thinking (2015-01-28) [57 min]
  • Kevin Kelly: Technium Unbound (2014-11-13) [87 min]
  • Larry Harvey: Why The Man Keeps Burning (2014-10-21) [91 min]
  • Drew Endy: The iGEM Revolution (2014-09-17) [96 min]
  • Anne Neuberger: Inside the NSA (2014-08-07) [89 min]
  • Adrian Hon: A History of the Future in 100 Objects (2014-07-17) [81 min]
  • Stefan Kroepelin: Civilization’s Mysterious Desert Cradle: Rediscovering the Deep Sahara (2014-06-11) [99 min]
  • Sylvia Earle, Tierney Thys: Oceanic (2014-05-21) [96 min]
  • Tony Hsieh: Helping Revitalize a City (2014-04-23) [93 min]
  • Mariana Mazzucato: The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Private vs. Public Sector Myths (2014-03-25) [98 min]
  • Brian Eno, Danny Hillis: The Long Now, now (2014-01-22) [89 min]
  • Richard Kurin: American History in 101 Objects (2013-11-19) [81 min]
  • Adam Steltzner: Beyond Mars, Earth (2013-10-16) [89 min]
  • Peter Schwartz: The Starships ARE Coming (2013-09-18) [76 min]
  • Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow (2013-08-14) [77 min]
  • Craig Childs: Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth (2013-07-30) [95 min]
  • Ed Lu: Anthropocene Astronomy: Thwarting Dangerous Asteroids Begins with Finding Them (2013-06-19) [89 min]
  • Stewart Brand: Reviving Extinct Species (2013-05-22) [89 min]
  • Nicholas Negroponte: Beyond Digital (2013-04-18) [91 min]
  • George Dyson: No Time Is There--- The Digital Universe and Why Things Appear To Be Speeding Up (2013-03-20) [91 min]
  • Chris Anderson: The Makers Revolution (2013-02-20) [90 min]
  • Terry Hunt, Carl Lipo: The Statues Walked -- What Really Happened on Easter Island (2013-01-18) [100 min]
  • Peter Warshall: Enchanted by the Sun: The CoEvolution of Light, Life, and Color on Earth (2012-11-29) [117 min]
  • Lazar Kunstmann, Jon Lackman: Preservation without Permission: the Paris Urban eXperiment (2012-11-14) [94 min]
  • Steven Pinker: The Decline of Violence (2012-10-09) [93 min]
  • Tim O'Reilly: Birth of the Global Mind (2012-09-06) [96 min]
  • Elaine Pagels: The Truth About the Book of Revelations (2012-08-21) [75 min]
  • Cory Doctorow: The Coming Century of War Against Your Computer (2012-08-01) [88 min]
  • Benjamin Barber: If Mayors Ruled the World (2012-06-06) [88 min]
  • Susan Freinkel: Eternal Plastic: A Toxic Love Story (2012-05-23) [88 min]
  • Charles C. Mann: Living in the Homogenocene: The First 500 Years (2012-04-24) [99 min]
  • Edward O. Wilson: The Social Conquest of Earth (2012-04-21) [92 min]
  • Mark Lynas: The Nine Planetary Boundaries: Finessing the Anthropocene (2012-03-07) [89 min]
  • Jim Richardson: Heirlooms: Saving Humanity's 10,000-year Legacy of Food (2012-02-23) [86 min]
  • Lawrence Lessig: How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It (2012-01-18) [92 min]
  • Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 6 (2011-12-09) [83 min]
  • Brewster Kahle: Universal Access to All Knowledge (2011-12-01) [94 min]
  • Laura Cunningham: Ten Millennia of California Ecology (2011-10-18) [91 min]
  • Timothy Ferriss: Accelerated Learning in Accelerated Times (2011-09-15) [85 min]
  • Geoffrey B. West: Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster (2011-07-26) [109 min]
  • Peter Kareiva: Conservation in the Real World (2011-06-28) [91 min]
  • Carl Zimmer: Viral Time (2011-06-08) [92 min]
  • Tim Flannery: Here on Earth (2011-05-04) [91 min]
  • Ian Morris: Why the West Rules - For Now (2011-04-14) [98 min]
  • Alexander Rose: Millennial Precedent (2011-04-06) [52 min]
  • Matt Ridley: Deep Optimism (2011-03-23) [97 min]
  • Mary Catherine Bateson: Live Longer, Think Longer (2011-02-10) [88 min]
  • Philip K. Howard: Fixing Broken Government (2011-01-19) [94 min]
  • Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 5 (2010-12-17) [89 min]
  • Rachel Sussman: The World's Oldest Living Organisms (2010-11-16) [68 min]
  • Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought (2010-10-27) [107 min]
  • Stewart Brand, Jane McGonigal: Long Conversation 19 of 19 (2010-10-17) [17 min]
  • Jane McGonigal, Tiffany Shlain: Long Conversation 18 of 19 (2010-10-17) [19 min]
  • Paul Hawken, Tiffany Shlain: Long Conversation 17 of 19 (2010-10-17) [19 min]
  • Katherine Fulton, Paul Hawken: Long Conversation 16 of 19 (2010-10-17) [19 min]
  • Stuart Candy, Katherine Fulton: Long Conversation 15 of 19 (2010-10-17) [19 min]
  • Stuart Candy, Danese Cooper: Long Conversation 14 of 19 (2010-10-17) [19 min]
  • Danese Cooper, Peter Schwartz: Long Conversation 13 of 19 (2010-10-17) [19 min]
  • Peter Schwartz, Pete Worden: Long Conversation 12 of 19 (2010-10-17) [19 min]
  • Ken Foster, Pete Worden: Long Conversation 11 of 19 (2010-10-17) [19 min]
  • Melissa Alexander, Ken Foster: Long Conversation 10 of 19 (2010-10-17) [19 min]
  • Melissa Alexander, Ken Wilson: Long Conversation 9 of 19 (2010-10-17) [19 min]
  • John Perry Barlow, Ken Wilson: Long Conversation 8 of 19 (2010-10-17) [19 min]
  • John Perry Barlow, Violet Blue: Long Conversation 7 of 19 (2010-10-16) [20 min]
  • Violet Blue, Robin Sloan: Long Conversation 6 of 19 (2010-10-16) [19 min]
  • Robin Sloan, Jill Tarter: Long Conversation 5 of 19 (2010-10-16) [19 min]
  • Emily Levine, Jill Tarter: Long Conversation 4 of 19 (2010-10-16) [19 min]
  • Saul Griffith, Emily Levine: Long Conversation 3 of 19 (2010-10-16) [19 min]
  • Jem Finer, Saul Griffith: Long Conversation 2 of 19 (2010-10-16) [19 min]
  • Stewart Brand, Jem Finer: Long Conversation 1 of 19 (2010-10-16) [20 min]
  • Martin Rees: Life's Future in the Cosmos (2010-08-03) [99 min]
  • Jesse Schell: Visions of the Gamepocalypse (2010-07-28) [109 min]
  • Frank Gavin: Five Ways to Use History Well (2010-07-13) [100 min]
  • Ed Moses: Clean Fusion Power This Decade (2010-06-17) [98 min]
  • Nils Gilman: Deviant Globalization (2010-05-04) [94 min]
  • David Eagleman: Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization (2010-04-02) [102 min]
  • Beth Noveck: Transparent Government (2010-03-05) [104 min]
  • Alan Weisman: World Without Us, World With Us (2010-02-25) [102 min]
  • Stewart Brand, Brian Eno, Alexander Rose: Long Finance: The Enduring Value Conference (2010-02-01) [39 min]
  • Wade Davis: The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World (2010-01-14) [109 min]
  • Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4 (2009-12-05) [106 min]
  • Sander van der Leeuw: The Archaeology of Innovation (2009-11-19) [89 min]
  • Stewart Brand: Rethinking Green (2009-10-10) [90 min]
  • Arthur Ganson: Machines and the Breath of Time (2009-09-15) [83 min]
  • Wayne Clough: Smithsonian Forever (2009-08-18) [86 min]
  • Raoul Adamchak, Pamela Ronald: Organically Grown and Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future (2009-07-29) [100 min]
  • Paul Romer: A Theory of History, with an Application (2009-05-19) [54 min]
  • Michael Pollan: Deep Agriculture (2009-05-06) [58 min]
  • Gavin Newsom: Cities and Time (2009-04-09) [61 min]
  • Daniel Everett: Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future (2009-03-21) [65 min]
  • Dmitry Orlov: Social Collapse Best Practices (2009-02-14) [60 min]
  • Saul Griffith: Climate Change Recalculated (2009-01-17) [56 min]
  • Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco (2008-12-20) [70 min]
  • Drew Endy, Jim Thomas: Synthetic Biology Debate (2008-11-18) [63 min]
  • Huey Johnson: Green Planning at Nation Scale (2008-10-04) [63 min]
  • Peter Diamandis: Long-term X-Prizes (2008-09-13) [70 min]
  • Neal Stephenson: ANATHEM Book Launch Event (2008-09-09) [19 min]
  • Daniel Suarez: Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality (2008-08-09) [78 min]
  • Edward Burtynsky: The 10,000-year Gallery (2008-07-24) [76 min]
  • Paul Ehrlich: The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment (2008-06-28) [76 min]
  • Iqbal Quadir: Technology Empowers the Poorest (2008-05-22) [75 min]
  • Niall Ferguson, Peter Schwartz: Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress (2008-04-29) [100 min]
  • Craig Venter: Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention (2008-02-26) [109 min]
  • Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought (2008-02-05) [87 min]
  • Paul Saffo: Embracing Uncertainty: the secret to effective forecasting (2008-01-12) [85 min]
  • Joline Blais, Jon Ippolito: At the Edge of Art (2007-12-15) [86 min]
  • Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Enduring Principles for Changing Times (2007-11-10) [80 min]
  • Juan Enriquez: Mapping the Frontier of Knowledge (2007-10-13) [89 min]
  • Rip Anderson, Gwyneth Cravens: Power to Save the World (2007-09-15) [104 min]
  • Alex Wright: Glut: Mastering Information Though the Ages (2007-08-18) [93 min]
  • Francis Fukuyama: 'The End of History' Revisited (2007-06-29) [72 min]
  • Paul Hawken: The New Great Transformation (2007-06-09) [71 min]
  • Steven Johnson: The Long Zoom (2007-05-12) [86 min]
  • Frans Lanting: Life's Journey Through Time (2007-04-28) [13 min]
  • Brian Fagan: We Are Not the First to Suffer Through Climate Change (2007-03-10) [79 min]
  • Vernor Vinge: What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen? (2007-02-16) [90 min]
  • Philip Tetlock: Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs (2007-01-27) [73 min]
  • Philip Rosedale: 'Second Life:' What Do We Learn If We Digitize EVERYTHING? (2006-12-01) [74 min]
  • Larry Brilliant, Katherine Fulton, Richard Rockefeller: The Deeper News About the New Philanthropy (2006-11-04) [74 min]
  • John Baez: Zooming Out in Time (2006-10-14) [87 min]
  • Orville Schell: China Thinks Long-term, But Can It Relearn to Act Long-term? (2006-09-23) [88 min]
  • John Rendon: Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short (2006-07-15) [90 min]
  • Brian Eno, Will Wright: Playing with Time (2006-06-27) [100 min]
  • Chris Anderson, Will Hearst: The Long Time Tail (2006-05-13) [89 min]
  • Jimmy Wales: Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture (2006-04-15) [76 min]
  • Kevin Kelly: The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method. (2006-03-11) [78 min]
  • Stephen Lansing: Perfect Order: A Thousand Years in Bali (2006-02-14) [79 min]
  • Ralph Cavanagh, Peter Schwartz: Nuclear Power, Climate Change and the Next 10,000 Years (2006-01-14) [102 min]
  • Sam Harris: The View from the End of the World (2005-12-10) [81 min]
  • Clay Shirky: Making Digital Durable: What Time Does to Categories (2005-11-15) [96 min]
  • Esther Dyson, Freeman Dyson, George Dyson: The Difficulty of Looking Far Ahead (2005-10-06) [81 min]
  • Ray Kurzweil: Kurzweil's Law (2005-09-24) [105 min]
  • Robert Fuller: Patient Revolution: Human Rights Past and Future (2005-08-13) [61 min]
  • Jared Diamond: How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed (2005-07-16) [71 min]
  • Robert Neuwirth: The 21st Century Medieval City (2005-06-11) [79 min]
  • Stewart Brand: Cities & Time (2005-04-09) [81 min]
  • Spencer Beebe: Very Long-term Very Large-scale Biomimicry (2005-03-12) [75 min]
  • Roger Kennedy: The Political History of North America from 25,000 BC to 12,000 AD (2005-02-26) [84 min]
  • James Carse: Religious War In Light of the Infinite Game (2005-01-15) [87 min]
  • Ken Dychtwald: The Consequences of Human Life Extension (2004-12-04) [124 min]
  • Michael West: The Prospects of Human Life Extension (2004-11-13) [84 min]
  • Paul Hawken: The Long Green (2004-10-16) [79 min]
  • Danny Hillis: Progress on the 10,000-year Clock (2004-09-11) [66 min]
  • Phillip Longman: The Depopulation Problem (2004-08-14) [61 min]
  • Jill Tarter: The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence: Necessarily a Long-term Strategy (2004-07-10) [81 min]
  • Bruce Sterling: The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole (2004-06-12) [97 min]
  • David Rumsey: Mapping Time (2004-05-15) [100 min]
  • Daniel Janzen: Third World Conservation: It's ALL Gardening (2004-04-10) [86 min]
  • Rusty Schweickart: The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years (2004-03-13) [91 min]
  • James Dewar: Long-term Policy Analysis (2004-02-14) [69 min]
  • George Dyson: There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing (2004-01-10) [90 min]
  • Peter Schwartz: The Art Of The Really Long View (2003-12-13) [127 min]
  • Brian Eno: The Long Now (2003-11-15) [77 min]

Conversations at The Interval

  • A Foundation of Trust: Building a Blockchain Future: Brian Behlendorf (2019-06-07) [71 min]
  • Time Poverty Amidst Digital Abundance: Judy Wajcman (2019-05-21) [68 min]
  • Growing Up Ape: The Long-term Science of Studying Our Closest Living Relatives: Elizabeth Lonsdorf (2019-05-14) [64 min]
  • Can Nationalism be a Resource for Democracy?: Maya Tudor (2019-05-06) [66 min]
  • Siberia: A Journey to the Mammoth Steppe: Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly, Alexander Rose (2019-04-30) [82 min]
  • The Evolving Science of Behavior Change: Christopher Bryan (2019-04-18) [71 min]
  • The Spirit Singularity: Science and the Afterlife at the Turn of the 20th Century: Hannu Rajaniemi (2019-04-10) [65 min]
  • The Science of Climate Fiction: Can Stories Lead to Social Action?: James Holland Jones (2019-04-04) [77 min]
  • Charting the High Frontier of Space: Ed Lu (2019-03-26) [65 min]
  • Facts, Feelings and Stories: How to Motivate Action on Climate Change: Shahzeen Attari (2018-08-15) [67 min]
  • The Organized Pursuit of Knowledge: Margaret Levi (2018-04-18) [69 min]
  • Our Future in Algorithm Farming: Mike Kuniavsky (2018-03-01) [70 min]
  • Humanity and the Deep Ocean: James Nestor (2018-02-01) [56 min]
  • The New Deal You Don't Know: Louis Hyman (2018-01-02) [61 min]
  • Can Democracy Survive the Internet?: Nathaniel Persily (2017-12-07) [66 min]
  • Ideology in our Genes: The Biological Basis for Political Traits: Rose McDermott (2017-12-01) [60 min]
  • The Web In An Eye Blink: Jason Scott (2017-11-01) [60 min]
  • Thinking Long-term About the Evolving Global Challenge: The Refugee Reality (2017-10-01) [78 min]
  • Envisioning Deep Time: Jonathon Keats (2017-09-01) [57 min]
  • How Climate Will Evolve Government and Society: Kim Stanley Robinson (2017-08-01) [62 min]
  • Transforming Perception, One Sense at a Time: Kara Platoni (2017-07-03) [58 min]
  • Talking with Robots about Architecture: Jeffrey McGrew (2017-06-09) [57 min]
  • Proof: The Science of Booze: Adam Rogers (2017-06-09) [60 min]
  • The Red Planet for Real: Andy Weir (2017-06-09) [70 min]
  • How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future: Abby Smith Rumsey (2017-06-09) [62 min]
  • Pace Layers Thinking: Stewart Brand, Paul Saffo (2017-06-09) [57 min]
  • Seveneves at The Interval: Neal Stephenson (2017-06-09) [64 min]

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