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.
Daniel Everett: Endangered Languages, Lost Knowledge and the Future
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - March 20, 2009
Everett proposes a revolution in anthropology and linguistics: culture profoundly shapes language, even at the most fundamental level.
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.
Saul Griffith: Climate Change Recalculated
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - January 16, 2009
Griffith has done the research and the math to figure out exactly what it will take for humanity to soften the impact of climate change in the next 25 years.
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.
Drew Endy vs. Jim Thomas: Synthetic Biology Debate
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - November 17, 2008
Endy and Thomas debate the question: Is synthetic biology reckless or wise from the perspective of "the long now?"
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.
Television: The Enchanted Mirror
DVD : Zala Films : Release Date - October 1, 2008
an acclaimed 1981 documentary about the impact of television on people and social institutions, which was produced before the dawn of the computer age, has been remastered and released by Whole Earth Films.
Peter Diamandis: Long-term X-Prizes
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - September 12, 2008
The X Prize contest founder explores what might be prize-worthy with a hundred-year or thousand-year goal.
Neal Stephenson: Anathem
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - September 9, 2008
What if we lived in a world where the long-term was taken seriously? At an event hosted by the Long Now Foundation, science fiction author Neal Stephenson reads from his latest novel
Anathem.
Daniel Suarez: Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - August 8, 2008
The viral success story of the year is a techno-thriller called Daemon. Suarez tells how he self-printed the book after being turned down by mainstream publishers.
Edward Burtynsky: The 10,000-Year Gallery
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - July 23, 2008
Burtynsky's massively informative photographs change minds and influence policy. Their historical value will grow with time. He presents his plan for a 10,000-year Gallery to accompany the 10,000-year Clock.
Paul Ehrlich: The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - June 6, 2008
Ehrlich explores whether cultural evolution really does show patterns that would yield predictive theory.
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.
Niall Ferguson and Peter Schwartz: Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - April 28, 2008
Historian Ferguson and futurist Schwartz disagree on the nature of human progress. Both regard history as highly contingent. The question is, contingent on what?