Sinopsis
Explore hundreds of lectures by scientists, historians, artists, entrepreneurs, and more through The Long Now Foundation's award-winning lecture series, curated and hosted by Long Now co-founder Stewart Brand (creator of the Whole Earth Catalog). Recorded live in San Francisco each month since 02003, past speakers include Brian Eno, Neil Gaiman, Sylvia Earle, Daniel Kahneman, Jennifer Pahlka, Steven Johnson, and many more. Watch video of these talks and learn more about our projects at Longnow.org. The Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to fostering long-term thinking and responsibility.
Episodios
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![Bruce Sterling: The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole]()
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![David Rumsey: Mapping Time]()
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![Daniel Janzen: Third World Conservation: Its ALL Gardening]()
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![Rusty Schweickart: The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years]()
Rusty Schweickart: The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years
13/03/2004 Duración: 01h31minThe epitome of long-term thinking is to take seriously the protection of the Earth from massive asteroid impacts, which in the past have extincted as much as 90% of life on Earth. On Friday, March 12, astronaut Rusty Schweickart will give a public lecture titled "The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years." It will detail graphically the results of his research on asteroid impact frequency and damage, along with what it will take to find and deflect future threatening asteroids.
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![James Dewar: Long-term Policy Analysis]()
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![George Dyson: Theres Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing]()
George Dyson: There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing
10/01/2004 Duración: 01h30minGeorge Dyson is ringing a change on the famous 1959 lecture by physicist Richard Feynman that showed the way to nanotechnology. It was called, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom."
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![Peter Schwartz: The Art Of The Really Long View]()
Peter Schwartz: The Art Of The Really Long View
13/12/2003 Duración: 127h21minPeter Schwartz, considered by many to be the world's leading futurist, will be trying out new ideas in public in a talk titled, "The Art of the Really Long View." He'll be talking about ways to engage the next several hundred years.
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![Brian Eno: The Long Now]()
Brian Eno: The Long Now
15/11/2003 Duración: 01h17minThis is not a concert. Brian Eno will be speaking about "The Long Now." His talk will be the first of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking, sponsored by The Long Now Foundation. His talks are usually as amazing as his music. The on-going lectures in this new series will be every second Friday at Fort Mason. Future speakers include Peter Schwartz, George Dyson, Laurie Anderson, Rusty Schweickart, Paul Hawken, Daniel Janzen, and Danny Hillis.
