Chris Anderson with Will Hearst: The Long Time Tail
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - May 12, 2006
Chris Anderson defines the exact shape of the still emerging opportunity space for finding and selling formerly unfindable and unsellable items of every imaginable description.
John Baez: Zooming Out in Time
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - October 13, 2006
The graphs we see these days, John Baez began, all look vertical — carbon burning shooting up, CO2 in the air shooting up, global temperature shooting up, and population still shooting up. How can we understand what really going on?
Gwyneth Cravens with Rip Anderson: Power to Save the World
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - September 14, 2007
The best introduction to the current realities and benefits of nuclear power is Cravens book
Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy.
Juan Enriquez: Mapping the Frontier of Knowledge
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - October 12, 2007
Enriquez examines how we image and imagine what we are exploring, and thus image and imagine exploration itself.
Francis Fukuyama: "The End of History" Revisited
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - June 28, 2007
Fukuyama examines conflict with and within Islam, the need for a diffuse form of global governance to deal with problems.
Katherine Fulton with Richard Rockefeller and Larry Brilliant: The Deeper News About the New Philanthropy
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - November 3, 2006
Philanthropy across the board is in the midst of intense, potentially revolutionary, transition. There's new money, new leaders, new rules, new technology, and new needs.
Paul Hawken: The New Great Transformation
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - June 8, 2007
Paul Hawken describes conditions in which "the future is stolen and sold to the present," — a situation we are having to deal with yet again.
Jon Ippolito and Joline Blais: At the Edge of Art
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - December 14, 2007
Art, like the antibodies in our immune system, creates alien forces in service of the whole. It anticipates threats and models them. It is a diversity agent.
Steven Johnson: The Long Zoom
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - May 11, 2007
The value of a long zoom is in identifying and employing every scale between the very large and very small, noticing how they change each other when held in the mind at the same time.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Enduring Principles for Changing Times
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - November 9, 2007
Kanter offers a positive agenda for the nation, focused on innovation and education, a new workplace social contract, values-based corporate conduct, and competent government.
Kevin Kelly: The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - March 10, 2006
The co-founding editor of
Wired magazine and author of
Out of Control is working on a new book on "what technology wants." His research led to the first-ever history of scientific methodology.
Stephen Lansing: Perfect Order: A Thousand Years in Bali
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - February 13, 2006
With lucid exposition and gorgeous graphics, anthropologist Stephen Lansing exposed the hidden structure and profound health of the traditional Balinese rice growing practices.