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?
Craig Venter: Vision: Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - February 25, 2008
With his current series of breakthroughs in synthetic biology Craig Venter and his team are not so much creating life as joining life. Reverse-engineering evolution's long-refined tricks and subtleties at the molecular level is building humanity's most powerful toolkit yet.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alex Wright: Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - August 17, 2007
Alex Wright is a writer and information architect who currently works for
The New York Times. His first book,
Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages is an impressive survey on how societies have dealt with information overload through time.