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Seminars, Salons and the Long Tradition of Raising Cups in Conversation 23 Aug 2013 | 10:37 pm
November 02013 will mark the 10th anniversary of the first of Long Now’s monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking. One of our founding board members, Brian Eno, gave that first talk which was entitle...
Harmonic Spheres and the Music of the Cosmos 21 Aug 2013 | 10:29 pm
In the 6th century BC, Pythagoras developed the science of harmonics. Legend has it that he was inspired by the sounds emanating from a blacksmith’s shop; producing experimental music with hammers and...
Daniel Kahneman Seminar Media 20 Aug 2013 | 10:22 pm
This lecture was presented as part of The Long Now Foundation’s monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking. Thinking Fast and Slow Tuesday August 13, 02013 – San Francisco Audio is up on the Kahn...
Peter Schwartz Seminar Tickets 19 Aug 2013 | 10:33 pm
The Long Now Foundation’s monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking Peter Schwartz presents “The Starships ARE Coming” TICKETS Tuesday September 17, 02013 at 7:30pm SFJAZZ Long Now Members can re...
Peter Schwartz Seminar Tickets 19 Aug 2013 | 10:33 pm
The Long Now Foundation’s monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking Peter Schwartz presents “The Starships ARE Coming” TICKETS Tuesday September 17, 02013 at 7:30pm SFJAZZ Long Now Members can re...
Toward a Manual for Civilization 14 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
“We are as gods” because of our ancestors’ diligence. The promise of a technologically advancing future is predicated on millennia of accumulated knowledge. Civilization has taken a lot of work to bui...
Scientists recover 700,000-year-old genome 13 Aug 2013 | 09:17 pm
There’s an upper limit to how long DNA can last due to the way it decays – dinosaurs, for instance, lived far too long ago for their DNA to still be readable – but scientists recently recovered and se...
Art & The Art of Archiving at New York’s New Museum 12 Aug 2013 | 10:49 pm
From July 17 to September 8 of this year, the New Museum on Manhattan’s Lower East Side is hosting XFR STN (read ‘transfer station’), an “open-door artist-centered media archiving project.” A collabo...
Long Now Salon Design and Building Partners: Because We Can 8 Aug 2013 | 08:10 pm
Because We Can co-owners Jeffrey McGrew and Jillian Northrup As we begin construction of The Long Now Salon, we thought it was a good time to tell you more about the company we’ve collaborated with t...
Daniel Kahneman Seminar Primer 7 Aug 2013 | 12:42 am
“Thinking Fast and Slow” Tuesday August 13, 02013 at the Marines Memorial Theater, San Francisco Daniel Kahneman is one of the world’s foremost psychologist. Back in the early 1970s, Kahneman and hi...
