I have been thinking about what it will take to move from a global civilization to a planetary civilization — and why we need ...

The inaugural issue of Long Now’s new annual print journal synthesizes the most important learnings of our first ...

Stephen Heintz is an American nonprofit executive and public policy expert. Since 02001, he has served as president of the ...

Sara Imari Walker leads one of the largest international theory groups in origins of life and astrobiology. Walker and her team's key areas of research are in developing new approaches to the problem ...

But the economy is better thought of as an emergent phenomenon based on our adopted stories and the values they contain, and ...

Frank Ostaseski is a Buddhist teacher, lecturer, and author focusing on contemplative end-of-life care. His book is The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully. It’s a ...

Below is an essay by a founding board member Stewart Brand on the need for, and the mechanism by which, The Long Now Foundation is attempting to encourage long-term thinking. Civilization is revving ...

is a nonprofit established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking. It is still being assembled deep inside a mountain in west Texas. The Clock provides a rare invitation to think and engineer at the ...

One day when I was having lunch with Richard Feynman, I mentioned to him that I was planning to start a company to build a parallel computer with a million processors. His reaction was unequivocal, ...