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.
Huey Johnson: Green Planning at Nation Scale
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - October 3, 2008
In this talk, as in his work with nations worldwide, Johnson spells out the current best practices for serious, long-term Green Planning.
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.
Ed Moses: Clean Fusion Power This Decade
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - June 16, 2010
The director of the National Ignition Facility explores that the dream of achieving fusion energy may be closer than everyone thinks.
Gavin Newsom: Cities and Time
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - April 8, 2009
San Francisco's mayor talks about lessons learned and plans in the making, in a world now mostly urban.
Beth Noveck: Transparent Government
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - March 4, 2010
The U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer talks about how the Obama administration is changing the culture of Washington by opening government data and pioneering innovations in policymaking.
Dmitry Orlov: Social Collapse Best Practices
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - February 13, 2009
An observer of the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe twenty years ago, engineer Orlov finds a similar sequence of events taking shape in America.
Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - December 19, 2008
Prelinger presents his third annual "Lost Landscapes of San Francisco" event, an eclectic montage of rarely-seen film clips showing life, landscapes and labor.
Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - December 4, 2009
Prelinger, a guerrilla archivist who collects the uncollected and makes it accessible, presents the fourth of his annual Lost Landscapes of San Francisco screenings.
Iqbal Quadir: Technology Empowers the Poorest
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - May 21, 2008
Linking new technology with the boundless resourcefulness of the poor drives innovation in surprising directions at surprising speed.
John Rendon: Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - July 14, 2006
John Rendon, head of The Rendon Group, is a senior communications consultant to 5 White House administrations and the Departments of Defense. His subject in this talk is how to replace tactical, reactive response to terror with long-term strategic initative.
Paul Romer: A Theory of History, with an Application
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - May 18, 2009
Romer shows that economic theory of history explains phenomena such as the constant improvement of the human standard of living by looking primarily at just two forms of innovative ideas: technology and rules.
Pamela Ronald & Raoul Adamchak: Organically Grown and Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - July 28, 2009
The UC Davis staffers present a visionary new approach to producing food: combining genetic engineering and organic farming.
Philip Rosedale: Second Life: What Do We Learn If We Digitize Everything?
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - November 30, 2006
What is real life coming to owe digital life? After a couple years in the flat part of exponential growth, the steep part is now arriving for the massive multi-player online world construction kit called "Second Life."
Paul Saffo: China Thinks Long-term, But Can It Relearn to Act Long-term?
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - January 11, 2008
The most quoted futurist alive, Paul Saffo specializes in the history and future of technology. In this talk, he spells out the secrets of his trade.
Jesse Schell: Visions of the Gamepocalypse
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - July 27, 2010
In this talk, Schell explores the social, cognitive, and technological trends in computer game design and use.