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.
Sander van der Leeuw: The Archaeology of Innovation
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - November 18, 2009
Are we the first civilization to try and innovate our way out of climate change? How have past societies engineered sustainable solutions to a shifting world?
Stewart Brand: Rethinking Green
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - October 13, 2009
Brand argues that taking account of the emerging global forces of climate change, urbanization, and biotechnology forces a rethink of some traditional environmental positions.
Arthur Ganson: Machines and the Breath of Time
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - September 14, 2009
Ganson uses humble materials to create kinetic sculptures, and his work has been an ongoing inspiration for the 10,000 Year Clock project at Long Now.
Wayne Clough: Smithsonian Forever
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - August 17, 2009
The Smithsonian's Secretary Wayne Clough spells out the Institution prospects — including the long-term future of science and education.
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.
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.
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.