The Long Now community is really something special. A group of people who are interdisciplinary and intergenerational. You feel this at Long Now events: a sense of togetherness that pushes back against polycrisis and short-term thinking. It feels curious, imaginative, and hopeful.

Wow, what a year at Long Now! 11 Long Now Talks 262-page print journal 25 new Council members 3 new Board members 1 monumental arboreal clock 400+ talks and essays added to our living archive

“We’re in a structural transition of pretty much everything around us. It’s something no civilization has ever faced before, a class of challenges which can only be solved on a planetary scale.” - @indyjohar.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/b160... Don't miss his Long Now Talk next month, 1/27/26 ->

Amazing talk by @katecrawford.bsky.social mapping empires and raising important topics on #AI! Good point about "Slopaganda" as cultural shift. With "feral capitalism" where we move fast, but have no breaks. She also talks about training on synthetic data leading to potential model collapse 📉

[Ticket announcement] @indyjohar.bsky.social “Civilizational Optioneering” Jan 27, 02026 In this talk, architect/philosopher Indy Johar proposes that civilization’s longevity depends less on stability or efficiency, and more on optionality.

Fantastic talk by @katecrawford.bsky.social on art, technology, science, AI slop and model collapse. We really need to cut through the AI industry's mystification of technology, so people can understand the stakes, be skeptical, and have a say in the future.

Can we grasp this sense of ourselves as existing in time, part of the beautiful continuum of life? Can we become inspired by the prospect of contributing to the future? Questions asked by Long Now cofounder Brian Eno in the essay "The Big Here and Long Now" -> longnow.org/ideas/the-bi...

Attended this talk live. History applied to current events helps with context. Visualizations as art: fantastic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsBn... @katecrawford.bsky.social & @longnow.org

In her Long Now Talk, @katecrawford.bsky.social argues that AI has created a metabolic rift: massive data collection that acts like poor nutrition at planetary scale. However, this is something we’ve seen before, dating back to the 1500s. Watch the full talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsBn...

Eleven years ago, the Rosetta probe reached Comet 67P—and placed a Long Now Rosetta Disk on its surface. Read about how it happened: longnow.org/ideas/after-...

What is "neural media"? Media that doesn’t simply broadcast or connect: it appears to think, reason, and create. Interdisciplinary artist and technologist @kalladomcdowell.bsky.social explains: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu3y...

𝘊𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 come and go. 𝘊𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 continues. - @stewartbrand.bsky.social What are the elements of a durable civilization? Stewart Brand explains: longnow.org/ideas/elemen...

AI reinforcement learning works by modeling the past, but it falls apart when things change in real time. What to do? @blaiseaguera.bsky.social and his team have the answer: empathy.

Grateful to see my essay “Life, Intelligence, and Consciousness: A Functional Perspective” appear in @longnow.org’s annual journal, Pace Layers.

We are excited to share that DRI's Anne Heggli's work appears in this year’s Pace Layers journal, a publication dedicated to long-term thinking and enduring futures. You can learn more about the issue at longnow.org/pacelayers

Working on this year's issue of Pace Layers has given me a welcome dose of perspective during uncertain times. I hope it'll do the same for you.

Look what just arrived! This year’s edition of Pace Layers, the anthology of the @longnow.org Foundation. I’ve got an essay on the surprising origins of public transit. In great company in this one! longnow.org/ideas/pace-l...

Times of fragmentation call for a legible sense of order. We’re pleased to introduce the 02025 issue of Pace Layers, Long Now’s annual print journal of long-term thinking. It explores the ancient past and distant future of the present moment. A preview of what's inside ->

Now that you've preordered @stewartbrand.bsky.social's new book, read an exclusive excerpt on Ideas, the Long Now blog: longnow.org/ideas/the-es...

The newest book from Long Now cofounder @stewartbrand.bsky.social is now available from @stripepress.bsky.social. Brand explores why taking responsibility for maintaining something—a motorcycle, a monument, or our very planet—can be a radical act. Preorder here: press.stripe.com/maintenance-...

Very excited to welcome this exceptional group to Long Now’s Council! ✨✨

Today, we're also thrilled to add three new members to our Board of Directors. Welcome Mick, Joe, and Lisa, we are honored to have you at the helm with us.

Today, we are thrilled to launch The Council at Long Now. The Council is the new advisory body bringing together distinguished leaders across a diverse range of fields to serve as ambassadors for long-term thinking and responsibility.

A new Ideas piece by Josh Berson focuses on very human conceptions of meaning and taste. A beautiful read about attention, finitude, and why meaning is something we hold in common: longnow.org/ideas/on-mea...

Attention ticket buyers - there are fake accounts selling tickets to the Lost Landscapes event with Rick Prelinger (@footage.bsky.social) please be aware. Only tickets from the link below are valid:

[TUNE IN] Tonight (Wed Nov 12, 7PST), @kevinkelly.bsky.social presents @katecrawford.bsky.social: A Long Now Talk to situate AI within civilization’s long arc of governance, empire, and expansion. The show is sold out, but you can join us on the livestream here:

When everything feels like it’s falling apart, long-term thinking feels like a luxury. But crisis narrows our attention, leaving little room for reflection or collective action. Long-term thinking reconnects us with what matters most—it is a shared practice.

As the end-of-year hustle approaches, keep this antidote on hand: @jennitaur.bsky.social's exploration of deep attention and how to challenge to our obsession with linear progress longnow.org/talks/02023-...

How the brain’s ability to model creates explosions in intelligence, from @blaiseaguera.bsky.social's Long Now Talk.

Mycelium on the moon, biological glue, DNA wire? Lynn Rothschild’s NASA lab is responsible for mindboggling off-planet technologies that could also provide radically sustainable solutions for Earthbound problems. Watch Lynn Rothschild’s full Long Now Talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=caKc...

Lost Landscapes celebrates 20 years of film ephemera! Join us for a 20th anniversary screening, featuring 300 newly-unearthed archival films creating a panorama of 128 years of SF history.

Exciting update: @kevinkelly.bsky.social, founding editor of WIRED and long-time friend of Long Now, will be our guest host for the Kate Crawford Talk on Nov 12. Tickets are going fast, join us!

In the latest Ideas piece, track the production of the Amazon Echo—from rare earth minerals to data center. Authors @katecrawford.bsky.social and Vladan Joler create an anatomical map of human labor, data, and planetary resources: longnow.org/ideas/anatom...

Did you know the lifetime of Whole Earth Catalog, starting in 01968, has been archived, preserved, and indexed? Thanks to @archive.org and Grey Area you can read nearly every issue at wholeearth.info

This video is really important. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o... It connects the dots between A.I. and climate disasters and is just a perfectly crafted piece of investigation and exposition. @katecrawford.bsky.social

Congratulations to our friends at @archive.org! Oct 22 is officially Internet Archive Day. 1 trillion pages archived, an extraordinary accomplishment.

A Long Now Talk to help situate our present technological moment within civilization’s long arc of governance, empire, and expansion, with AI scholar @katecrawford.bsky.social. Nov 12, 02025, 7pm More event info + tickets: longnow.org/talks/02025-...

[Ticket announcement] Award-winning author, artist & AI scholar @katecrawford.bsky.social joins us live in SF on Nov. 12. She will explore how past infrastructures and ideologies shape today’s AI tools, and help us imagine a future that is more sustainable & accountable. longnow.org/talks/02025-...

[LIVESTREAM] Tonight (Tuesday 10/14), Dr. Lynn J. Rothschild of NASA's Ames Research Center explores the bleeding edge of synthetic and evolutionary biology on Earth and beyond. Tune in live at 7pm PT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8435...

To answer to the question "what is intelligence?" @blaiseaguera.bsky.social connects the evolutionary dots between life, computation, and symbiogenesis in the latest Long Now Talk: youtu.be/KhSJuqDUJME?...

“You only exist here. And you exist here because four billion years was necessary to construct you on this planet.” - @saraimari.bsky.social

A wonderful, expansive conversation with Long Now cofounder Brian Eno on the @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social show today. "I think that’s what I mean by ‘generative music.’ You start the piece, but it finishes itself. It carries on finishing itself for the rest of time.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

NASA researcher Dr. Lynn Rothschild has -built synthetic cells -3D-printed trees -designed fungal-based housing for the moon You don't want to miss her upcoming talk exploring bleeding-edge synthetic and evolutionary biology, and how it can save us: longnow.org/talks/02025-...

Jane Goodall radically changed how we understand and relate to other intelligences on Earth. Learn more about how Goodall's approach left lasting impacts on primatology and many other fields of study in this excerpt from Elizabeth Lonsdorf's 02019 Talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqGJ...

I'm elated to share that I've joined @longnow.org as Director of Strategic Initiatives. While a long / deep time perspective can feel like a luxury in times such as ours, I'm grateful for a community of thinkers & practitioners hopefully creating the conditions for the many potential futures ahead.

We are thrilled to welcome @denisehearn.bsky.social as our new Director of Strategic Initiatives. She is an accomplished speaker (listen to her 02024 Long Now Talk, “Embodied Economies” t.co/MqaDE8GQjN), as well as an author, advisor, and Berggruen Institute fellow.

What if the solutions to humanity's greatest challenges have already been invented by nature? Dr. Lynn Rothschild of NASA's Ames Research Center explores the bleeding edge of synthetic biology in her upcoming Long Now Talk. Tickets and more info here: longnow.org/talks/02025-...

Everything alive is a computer—because the processes that enable life, at its core, are computational. This was a central point in my presentation and conversation with Benjamin Bratton at @longnow.org, where we challenged conventional notions about biological and artificial systems.

TUNE IN: livestream starts at 7:00pm PT In his Long Now Talk “What is Intelligence?” @blaiseaguera.bsky.social will discuss the connection between the nature of life and computing. Q&A hosted by Benjamin Bratton: www.youtube.com/live/NKxAWa7...

For those of us raised on science fiction, having AI become part of everyday life feels like the breakthrough we’ve been expecting. Yet some critics insist that no matter what these models do, they're not truly intelligent—just clever simulacra.