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.
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.
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.
Vernor Vinge: What If the Singularity Does Not Happen?
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - February 15, 2007
Vernor Vinge began by declaring that he still believes that a Singularity event in the next few decades is the most likely outcome — meaning that self-accelerating technologies will speed up to the point of so profound a transformation that the other side of it is unknowable.
Philip Tetlock: Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - January 26, 2007
From his perspective as a psychology researcher, Philip Tetlock watched political advisors on the left and the right make bizarre rationalizations about their wrong predictions at the time of the rise of Gorbachev in the 1980s and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union.
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."
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.
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?
Orville Schell: China Thinks Long-term, But Can It Relearn to Act Long-term?
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - September 22, 2006
"China is the most unresolved nation of consequence in the world," Orville Schell began. It is defined by its massive contradictions.
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.
Will Wright and Brian Eno: Playing with Time
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - June 26, 2006
In a dazzling duet Will Wright and Brian Eno gave an intense clinic on the joys and techniques of "generative" creation.
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.
Jimmy Wales: Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - April 14, 2006
Jimmy Wales, founder and president of the all-embracing online encyclopedia Wikipedia, examines how vision drives and defines that project and its strategy — and how it fits into the even larger world and prospects of "free culture."
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.
Peter Schwartz and Ralph Cavanaugh: Nuclear Power, Climate Change and the Next 10,000 Years
DVD : Long Now Foundation : Release Date - January 13, 2006
Peter Schwartz of the Global Business Network and Ralph Cavanagh of the Natural Resources Defense Counsel examine whether the "abrupt climate change" should lead to new emphasis on nuclear power.