Long Now: Conversations at The Interval

by The Long Now Foundation
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A long-term thinking lecture series from The Long Now Foundation: these hour long talks are recorded live at The Interval, our bar / cafe / museum in San Francisco. Since 02014 this series has presented artists, authors, entrepreneurs, scientists (and more) taking a long-term perspective on subjects like art, design, history, nature, technology, and time. You can learn more about The Interval and this series at theinterval.org, where we have full videos of the talks on this podcast.

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Recent Episodes
  • The Bureau of Linguistical Reality Performance Lecture: Alicia Escott, Heidi Quante
    May 1, 2024 – 50:30
  • Indigenous Sovereign Futures: Jonathan Cordero
    Apr 19, 2024 – 55:33
  • Embodied Economies: How our Economic Stories Shape the World: Denise Hearn
    Mar 7, 2024 – 56:04
  • Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures: Abby Smith Rumsey
    Nov 21, 2023 – 55:37
  • The False Promise of Optimization: Coco Krumme
    Oct 18, 2023 – 31:42
  • Resisting Dystopia: Becky Chambers, Annalee Newitz
    Jun 15, 2023 – 55:58
  • Psychedelics: History at the Crossroads: Ismail Ali
    Mar 21, 2023 – 58:02
  • How to Invent Everything: Ryan North
    Feb 28, 2023 –
  • Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need: Johanna Hoffman
    Jan 20, 2023 – 56:49
  • Drinking for 10,000 Years: Intoxication and Civilization: Edward Slingerland
    Jul 25, 2022 – 65:47
  • Space Debris and The Kessler Syndrome: A Possible Future Trapped on Earth: Creon Levit
    Jun 14, 2022 – 56:11
  • What’s The Future? It’s Up to Us.: Tim O'Reilly
    Mar 3, 2021 – 69:33
  • The History & Science of a Persistent Malady: Scurvy Salon
    Jan 29, 2021 – 64:49
  • Bay Area Telecommunications Infrastructure History: Rick Prelinger
    Jan 19, 2021 – 61:27
  • The Geological Reveal: How the Rock Record Shows Our Relationship to the Natural World: Miles Traer
    Dec 18, 2020 – 66:18
  • Art Thinking + Technology: A Personal Journey of Expanding Space and Time: Scott Kildall
    Sep 25, 2020 – 64:56
  • Adapting to Sea Level Rise: The Science of New York 2140: Kim Stanley Robinson
    Jul 17, 2020 – 64:27
  • Science Needs Fiction: Annalee Newitz
    Jul 13, 2020 – 72:30
  • Sometimes Brilliant
    in Conversation with Stewart Brand: Larry Brilliant
    Jun 29, 2020 – 62:31
  • Coding Ourselves/Coding Others: D. Fox Harrell
    Jun 11, 2020 – 57:59
  • Modern Surveillance: Why You Should Care and What You Can Do: Jennifer Granick
    May 4, 2020 – 74:08
  • Disinformation Technology: How Online Propaganda Campaigns Are Influencing Us: Renée DiResta
    Apr 6, 2020 – 72:25
  • The Five Ages of Burning Man: Michael Mikel
    Mar 23, 2020 – 90:24
  • Engram Preservation: Early Work Towards Mind Uploading: Robert McIntyre
    Mar 2, 2020 – 66:57
  • How to Be Futuristic: Bruce Sterling
    Feb 18, 2020 – 124:33
  • San Francisco Time: The Photography of Fred Lyon: Fred Lyon
    Feb 12, 2020 – 76:03
  • The Art and Science of Deep Time:
    Conceiving the Inconceivable in the 19th Century: Caroline Winterer
    Feb 6, 2020 – 69:21
  • 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week: Tiffany Shlain
    Jan 29, 2020 – 81:36
  • Is Reflecting Sunlight from the Atmosphere a Bridge to the Future?: Kelly Wanser
    Jan 14, 2020 – 87:14
  • The Short Now: What Addiction, Day Trading, and Most of Society’s Ills Have in Common: Esther Dyson
    Jan 9, 2020 – 76:21
  • Gods and Robots: Ancient Dreams of Technology: Adrienne Mayor
    Dec 22, 2019 – 70:45
  • We're in the Wrong Timeline: Annalee Newitz
    Dec 13, 2019 – 72:35
  • The Loop: Decision Technology and How to Resist It: Jacob Ward
    Dec 4, 2019 – 77:10
  • ORIGINS - How Earth’s history shaped human history: Lewis Dartnell
    Nov 13, 2019 – 72:56
  • Horological Heritage: Generating bird song, magic, and music through mechanism: Brittany Cox
    Nov 6, 2019 – 73:32
  • The Shape Of Data And Things To Come: Gurjeet Singh
    Oct 28, 2019 – 74:35
  • Exploring the Artificial Cryosphere: Nicola Twilley
    Aug 23, 2019 – 71:31
  • Neal Stephenson - Fall, or Dodge in Hell: Neal Stephenson
    Aug 14, 2019 – 64:00
  • Learning From Le Guin: Kim Stanley Robinson
    Jul 12, 2019 – 94:47
  • A Foundation of Trust: Building a Blockchain Future: Brian Behlendorf
    Jun 6, 2019 – 71:11
  • Time Poverty Amidst Digital Abundance: Judy Wajcman
    May 21, 2019 – 68:13
  • Growing Up Ape: The Long-term Science of Studying Our Closest Living Relatives: Elizabeth Lonsdorf
    May 14, 2019 – 64:26
  • Can Nationalism be a Resource for Democracy?: Maya Tudor
    May 6, 2019 – 66:52
  • Siberia: A Journey to the Mammoth Steppe: Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly, Alexander Rose
    Apr 30, 2019 – 82:54
  • The Evolving Science of Behavior Change: Christopher Bryan
    Apr 18, 2019 – 71:51
  • The Spirit Singularity: Science and the Afterlife at the Turn of the 20th Century: Hannu Rajaniemi
    Apr 10, 2019 – 65:06
  • The Science of Climate Fiction: Can Stories Lead to Social Action?: James Holland Jones
    Apr 4, 2019 – 77:58
  • Charting the High Frontier of Space: Ed Lu
    Mar 26, 2019 – 65:49
  • Facts, Feelings and Stories: How to Motivate Action on Climate Change: Shahzeen Attari
    Aug 15, 2018 – 67:36
  • The Organized Pursuit of Knowledge: Margaret Levi
    Apr 18, 2018 – 69:15
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    The second Long Now podcast!
    Long Now's first podcast dates back to 2003 and has nearly 200 episodes. It's fanatastic that there's now a second podcast which with more long term thinking lectures!
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