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Alexander Rose, Long Now Executive Director and project manager for the Clock of the Long Now, discussed lessons learned in multi-millennial site design.
Alexander Rose, Long Now Executive Director and project manager for the Clock of the Long Now, discussed lessons learned in multi-millennial site design. Rose covers his trip to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault as well as other sites and precedents like the Mormon Genealogical Vault and the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste site.
Jane Langdale:
Radical Ag: C4 Rice and Beyond
02011
Design, Architecture, Future, Engineering, Longevity
Priyamvada Natarajan:
Solving Dark Matter and Dark Energy
02016
Walter Mischel:
The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
02016
Stephen Pyne:
Fire Slow, Fire Fast, Fire Deep
02016
Eric Cline:
1177 B.C.: When Civilization Collapsed
02016
Rick Prelinger:
Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 10
02015
Philip Tetlock:
Superforecasting
02015
Andy Weir:
The Red Planet for Real
02015
James Fallows:
Civilization's Infrastructure
02015
Saul Griffith:
Infrastructure and Climate Change
02015
Sara Seager:
Other Earths. Other Life.
02015
Ramez Naam:
Enhancing Humans, Advancing Humanity
02015
Neil Gaiman:
How Stories Last
02015
Beth Shapiro:
How to Clone a Mammoth
02015
mammoth,passenger pigeon, heath hen, black-footed ferret, elephant, genetic engineering, cloning, CRISPR, paleogenomics, ancient DNA, de-extinction, genetic rescue, keystone species, endangered, conservation, tundra, permafrost
Michael Shermer:
The Long Arc of Moral Progress
02015
morality, science, justice, enlightenment, religion, reason, Steven Pinker, skeptic, civil liberties, democracy, market economy
Paul Saffo:
The Creator Economy
02015
creator, maker, forecasting, futurist, economic theory, robot, culture, disruption, invention, engagement, brautigan
David Keith:
Patient Geoengineering
02015
climate, climate change, geoengineering, carbon dioxide, emissions, global warming, sulfur, stratosphere
Stewart Brand, Paul Saffo:
Pace Layers Thinking
02015
long-term thinking, responsibility, pace layers, civilization, shearing layers, societal tiers, balance, resilience, fashion, commerce, infrastructure, governance, culture, nature
Jesse Ausubel:
Nature is Rebounding: Land- and Ocean-sparing through Concentrating Human Activities
02015
environment, dematerialization, Ocean, statistics, peak farmland, decarbonize, aquaculture
Rick Prelinger:
Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 9
02014
Kevin Kelly:
Technium Unbound
02014
technology, noosphere, technium, evolution, holosphere, Anthropocene, Internet, super-organism, planetary, web, Wired
Larry Harvey:
Why The Man Keeps Burning
02014
Burning Man, festival, community, regionals, radical, ritual, secular, sacred, philosophical center, culture, cultural legacy, Larry Harvey, Alexander Rose
Drew Endy:
The iGEM Revolution
02014
Synthetic Biology, Bioengineering, iGem, BioBricks, MIT, DNA, transcriptor, genomes, open source, biotech
Anne Neuberger:
Inside the NSA
02014
security, Snowden, social contract, intelligence community, counterterrorism, government, private sector, technology, surveillance, Internet, transparency
Adrian Hon:
A History of the Future in 100 Objects
02014
future, futurism, forecasting, gamification, artifact, object, neuroscience, zombies, history
Stefan Kroepelin:
Civilization’s Mysterious Desert Cradle: Rediscovering the Deep Sahara
02014
climate change, paleoclimatology, Sahara, desert, prehistoric, core sample, rock art, Egypt, civilization, pharaonic, Chad, nomadic
Sylvia Earle, Tierney Thys:
Oceanic
02014
oceans, environment, currents, coral reef, mola, marine protected area, oceanographer, photosynthesis, bioluminescence, robot, conservation,National Geographic Explorer, microbe
Tony Hsieh:
Helping Revitalize a City
02014
Mariana Mazzucato:
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Private vs. Public Sector Myths
02014
Colonel Matthew Bogdanos:
The Unlooting of Civilization’s Treasures in Wartime Iraq
02014
Brian Eno, Danny Hillis:
The Long Now, now
02014
Rick Prelinger:
Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 8
02013
Richard Kurin:
American History in 101 Objects
02013
Adam Steltzner:
Beyond Mars, Earth
02013
science, Space, starship, Technology, space exploration, futurism, Mars, Curiosity Rover, sky crane, seven minutes of terror, Earth
Peter Schwartz:
The Starships ARE Coming
02013
science, Space, starship, interstellar, Technology, space exploration, futurism, scenario planning, galactic civilization
Daniel Kahneman:
Thinking Fast and Slow
02013
behavioral economics, prospect theory, intuition, fast thinking, slow thinking, nobel prize
Craig Childs:
Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth
02013
apocalypse, climate change, adventure, environment, glaciers, desertification, geology, genetic engineering
Ed Lu:
Anthropocene Astronomy: Thwarting Dangerous Asteroids Begins with Finding Them
02013
science, asteroid, Sentinel, B612, astronauts, space, gravity tractor, Chelyabinsk, Tunguska, B612 Foundation
Stewart Brand:
Reviving Extinct Species
02013
extinction, de-extinction, Genomics, genes, technology, revive, species, mammoth, passenger pigeon
Nicholas Negroponte:
Beyond Digital
02013
technology, laptop, media lab, education, digital
George Dyson:
No Time Is There--- The Digital Universe and Why Things Appear To Be Speeding Up
02013
digital universe, time, acceleration, computer history, evolution, technology, big data
Chris Anderson:
The Makers Revolution
02013
technology, entrepreneurship, emerging markets, globalization, engineering, maker, makerbot, maker faire, 3d printing, drones, cad
Terry Hunt, Carl Lipo:
The Statues Walked -- What Really Happened on Easter Island
02013
Easter Island, Rapa Nui, environment, sustainability, anthropology, statues, moai
Rick Prelinger:
Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 7
02012
culture, history, film, arts, San Francisco, Lost Landscapes
Peter Warshall:
Enchanted by the Sun: The CoEvolution of Light, Life, and Color on Earth
02012
natural sciences, arts, color, evolution, light, bioluminescence, spectrum, twilight
Lazar Kunstmann, Jon Lackman:
Preservation without Permission: the Paris Urban eXperiment
02012
culture, history, philanthropy, philosophy, anthropology, Pantheon, underground, preservation
Steven Pinker:
The Decline of Violence
02012
politics, history, violence, social issues, conflict, social sciences, humanitarianism, peace, democratization
Tim O'Reilly:
Birth of the Global Mind
02012
technology, globalization, Internet, collective intelligence, gift culture, crowd-sourced, artificial intelligence
Elaine Pagels:
The Truth About the Book of Revelations
02012
culture, religion, history, revelations, gnostic gospels, conflict, Rome, bible
Cory Doctorow:
The Coming Century of War Against Your Computer
02012
technology, security, copyright, net neutrality, freedom, open source, surveillance, hacking
Benjamin Barber:
If Mayors Ruled the World
02012
politics, democratization, public policy, globalization, cities, mayors, urbanization
Susan Freinkel:
Eternal Plastic: A Toxic Love Story
02012
environment, sustainability, policy, plastics, recycling, bioplastic, green chemistry, disposable
Charles C. Mann:
Living in the Homogenocene: The First 500 Years
02012
environment, history, globalization, sustainability, Columbus, invasive species, trade, slave trade
Edward O. Wilson:
The Social Conquest of Earth
02012
evolutionary biology, ants, altruism, eusocial, kin selection
Mark Lynas:
The Nine Planetary Boundaries: Finessing the Anthropocene
02012
environment, climate change, sustainability, policy, planetary boundaires, ocean acidification, ozone, earth systems
Jim Richardson:
Heirlooms: Saving Humanity's 10,000-year Legacy of Food
02012
seeds, food, agriculture, animals, photography, National Geographic
Lawrence Lessig:
How Money Corrupts Congress and a Plan to Stop It
02012
law, public policy, Capitol Hill, campaign finance, Danny Hillis, congress, constitution
Rick Prelinger:
Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 6
02011
culture, history, film, arts, San Francisco, Lost Landscapes
Brewster Kahle:
Universal Access to All Knowledge
02011
library, books, Internet, digital, knowledge
Laura Cunningham:
Ten Millennia of California Ecology
02011
ecology, climate change, environment, paleontology, California
Timothy Ferriss:
Accelerated Learning in Accelerated Times
02011
psychology, wellness, education
Geoffrey B. West:
Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster
02011
Energy, Environment, Sustainability,
Peter Kareiva:
Conservation in the Real World
02011
Climate Change, Sustainability, Environment
Carl Zimmer:
Viral Time
02011
Natural Sciences, Environment, Health & Wellness
Tim Flannery:
Here on Earth
02011
Climate Change, Sustainability, History, Environment
Ian Morris:
Why the West Rules - For Now
02011
History, Conflict, Globalization, International Relations
Alexander Rose:
Millennial Precedent
02011
Design, Architecture, Future, Engineering, Longevity
Matt Ridley:
Deep Optimism
02011
Sustainability, Personal Technology, History, Environment, Economic Policy
Mary Catherine Bateson:
Live Longer, Think Longer
02011
Education, Health & Wellness, Social Issues, Sustainability
Philip K. Howard:
Fixing Broken Government
02011
Economic Policy, History, Entrepreneurship,
Rick Prelinger:
Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, 5
02010
Arts History
Rachel Sussman:
The World's Oldest Living Organisms
02010
Environment, Natural Sciences, Sustainability
Lera Boroditsky:
How Language Shapes Thought
02010
globalization, international relations, Social Issues, Social Sciences
Stewart Brand, Jane McGonigal:
Long Conversation 19 of 19
02010
Entertainment, globalization, Social Issues
Jane McGonigal, Tiffany Shlain:
Long Conversation 18 of 19
02010
Ineternet, Social Issues
Paul Hawken, Tiffany Shlain:
Long Conversation 17 of 19
02010
Internet, New Media, Social Issues, Social Sciences
Katherine Fulton, Paul Hawken:
Long Conversation 16 of 19
02010
Environment, Journalism, Philanthropy, Social Issues
Stuart Candy, Katherine Fulton:
Long Conversation 15 of 19
02010
Philanthropy, Social Issues
Stuart Candy, Danese Cooper:
Long Conversation 14 of 19
02010
Education, Internet, New Media
Danese Cooper, Peter Schwartz:
Long Conversation 13 of 19
02010
Education, Internet, New Media, Social Issues
Peter Schwartz, Pete Worden:
Long Conversation 12 of 19
02010
Natural Sciences, Social Issues, Social Sciences
Ken Foster, Pete Worden:
Long Conversation 11 of 19
02010
Arts, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences
Melissa Alexander, Ken Foster:
Long Conversation 10 of 19
02010
Arts Education Internet
Melissa Alexander, Ken Wilson:
Long Conversation 9 of 19
02010
Arts, Natural Sciences, Social Issues
John Perry Barlow, Ken Wilson:
Long Conversation 8 of 19
02010
Internet, New Media, Philanthropy
John Perry Barlow, Violet Blue:
Long Conversation 7 of 19
02010
Health & Wellness, Internet, Journalism, Social Sciences
Violet Blue, Robin Sloan:
Long Conversation 6 of 19
02010
Internet, New Media, Social Sciences
Robin Sloan, Jill Tarter:
Long Conversation 5 of 19
02010
Internet, Natural Sciences, New Media, Social Sciences
Emily Levine, Jill Tarter:
Long Conversation 4 of 19
02010
Education, Entertainment, Natural Sciences
Saul Griffith, Emily Levine:
Long Conversation 3 of 19
02010
Climate Change, Entertainment, Environment, Social Issues
Jem Finer, Saul Griffith:
Long Conversation 2 of 19
02010
Climate Change, Energy, Entertainment, Music
Stewart Brand, Jem Finer:
Long Conversation 1 of 19
02010
Environment, Music, Social Issues
Nineteen Speakers:
Long Conversation
02010
Education, Entertainment, Natural Sciences, New Media
Richard Rhodes:
Twilight of the Bombs
02010
Terrorism, U.S. Foreign Policy
Martin Rees:
Life's Future in the Cosmos
02010
Environment, Social Issues, Sustainability
Jesse Schell:
Visions of the Gamepocalypse
02010
New Media, Personal Technology
Frank Gavin:
Five Ways to Use History Well
02010
History, U.S. Foreign Policy
Ed Moses:
Clean Fusion Power This Decade
02010
Energy sustainabilty
Nils Gilman:
Deviant Globalization
02010
globalization, Social Issues
David Eagleman:
Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization
02010
History, Internet, Social Issues, Social Sciences
Beth Noveck:
Transparent Government
02010
Entrepreneurship, Internet, law, Personal Technology, Social Issues, White House 2009
Alan Weisman:
World Without Us, World With Us
02010
Environment, members only, Social Issues
Stewart Brand, Brian Eno, Alexander Rose:
Long Finance: The Enduring Value Conference
02010
Economic Policy, Social Issues, Social Sciences, Sustainability
Wade Davis:
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
02010
books, History, Social Sciences
Rick Prelinger:
Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4
02009
Arts History
Sander van der Leeuw:
The Archaeology of Innovation
02009
Climate Change, History, Sustainability
Stewart Brand:
Rethinking Green
02009
Climate Change, Energy, Environment
Arthur Ganson:
Machines and the Breath of Time
02009
Arts
Wayne Clough:
Smithsonian Forever
02009
Climate Change, Environment, History, Natural Sciences
Raoul Adamchak, Pamela Ronald:
Organically Grown and Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future
02009
Environment, food, Social Issues, Sustainability
Paul Romer:
A Theory of History, with an Application
02009
Economic Policy, emerging markets, globalization
Michael Pollan:
Deep Agriculture
02009
Environment, food, Social Issues, Sustainability
Gavin Newsom:
Cities and Time
02009
Climate Change, Energy, Environment, food, Sustainability
Daniel Everett:
Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future
02009
History, Social Issues, Social Sciences
Dmitry Orlov:
Social Collapse Best Practices
02009
Economic Policy, Social Issues, Sustainability
Saul Griffith:
Climate Change Recalculated
02009
Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Sustainability
Rick Prelinger:
Lost Landscapes of San Francisco
02008
Arts History
Drew Endy, Jim Thomas:
Synthetic Biology Debate
02008
Health & Wellness, Natural Sciences, Social Issues
Huey Johnson:
Green Planning at Nation Scale
02008
Energy Environment Sustainability
Peter Diamandis:
Long-term X-Prizes
02008
Entrepreneurship Sustainability
Neal Stephenson:
ANATHEM Book Launch Event
02008
Arts books Entertainment
Daniel Suarez (aka author Leinad Zeraus):
Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality
02008
Arts, books, Entertainment, Internet, New Media, Personal Technology
Edward Burtynsky:
The 10,000-year Gallery
02008
Arts
Paul Ehrlich:
The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment
02008
Energy, Environment, Social Sciences, Sustainability
Iqbal Quadir:
Technology Empowers the Poorest
02008
emerging markets, globalization, Social Issues
Niall Ferguson, Peter Schwartz:
Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress
02008
Conflict, History, Social Issues
Craig Venter:
Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention
02008
Energy, Natural Sciences, Social Issues
Nassim Nicholas Taleb:
The Future Has Always Been Crazier Than We Thought
02008
books, Credit Crunch, Economic Policy
Paul Saffo:
Embracing Uncertainty: the secret to effective forecasting
02008
Computing, Personal Technology, Social Issues, Social Sciences
Joline Blais, Jon Ippolito:
At the Edge of Art
02007
Arts
Rosabeth Moss Kanter:
Enduring Principles for Changing Times
02007
Philanthropy, Social Issues
Juan Enriquez:
Mapping the Frontier of Knowledge
02007
Arts History
Rip Anderson, Gwyneth Cravens:
Power to Save the World
02007
Energy Environment Sustainability Terrorism
Alex Wright:
Glut: Mastering Information Though the Ages
02007
History, Social Issues
Francis Fukuyama:
'The End of History' Revisited
02007
Economic Policy, History, Social Issues, U.S. Foreign Policy
Paul Hawken:
The New Great Transformation
02007
History, Social Issues, U.S. Foreign Policy
Steven Johnson:
The Long Zoom
02007
Health & Wellness, Healthcare, Personal Technology, Social Issues
Frans Lanting:
Life's Journey Through Time
02007
Arts, History, Social Issues
Brian Fagan:
We Are Not the First to Suffer Through Climate Change
02007
History, Social Sciences, Sustainability
Vernor Vinge:
What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen?
02007
Issues Social
Philip Tetlock:
Why Foxes Are Better Forecasters Than Hedgehogs
02007
History, Social Issues, U.S. Foreign Policy
Philip Rosedale:
'Second Life:' What Do We Learn If We Digitize EVERYTHING?
02006
Entertainment Internet
Larry Brilliant, Katherine Fulton, Richard Rockefeller:
The Deeper News About the New Philanthropy
02006
Philanthropy, Social Issues
John Baez:
Zooming Out in Time
02006
Energy Environment History
Orville Schell:
China Thinks Long-term, But Can It Relearn to Act Long-term?
02006
History
John Rendon:
Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short
02006
Social Issues, Terrorism, U.S. Foreign Policy
Brian Eno, Will Wright:
Playing with Time
02006
Music, Personal Technology
Chris Anderson, Will Hearst:
The Long Time Tail
02006
Internet, Personal Technology
Jimmy Wales:
Vision: Wikipedia and the Future of Free Culture
02006
Internet, Social Issues
Kevin Kelly:
The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method.
02006
Energy, History, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences
Stephen Lansing:
Perfect Order: A Thousand Years in Bali
02006
Energy, Environment, History, Social Issues, U.S. Foreign Policy
Ralph Cavanagh, Peter Schwartz:
Nuclear Power, Climate Change and the Next 10,000 Years
02006
Energy, Environment, Social Issues, Terrorism, U.S. Foreign Policy
Sam Harris:
The View from the End of the World
02005
Religion, Social Issues
Clay Shirky:
Making Digital Durable: What Time Does to Categories
02005
Internet, Personal Technology
George Dyson, Freeman Dyson, Esther Dyson:
The Difficulty of Looking Far Ahead
02005
Social Issues, Sustainability
Ray Kurzweil:
Kurzweil's Law
02005
History, Social Issues
Robert Fuller:
Patient Revolution: Human Rights Past and Future
02005
History, Social Issues, Social Sciences
Jared Diamond:
How Societies Fail-And Sometimes Succeed
02005
History, Social Issues, Social Sciences
Robert Neuwirth:
The 21st Century Medieval City
02005
Energy, Environment, Social Issues
Will Jarvis:
Time Capsule Behavior
02005
History,
Stewart Brand:
Cities & Time
02005
History, Social Issues
Spencer Beebe:
Very Long-term Very Large-scale Biomimicry
02005
Environment, Social Issues, Sustainability
Roger Kennedy:
The Political History of North America from 25,000 BC to 12,000 AD
02005
Energy, Environment, History, Social Issues
James Carse:
Religious War In Light of the Infinite Game
02005
Religion, Social Issues
Ken Dychtwald:
The Consequences of Human Life Extension
02004
Natural Sciences, Social Issues, Social Sciences
Michael West:
The Prospects of Human Life Extension
02004
Health & Wellness, Natural Sciences, Social Issues, Social Sciences
Paul Hawken:
The Long Green
02004
Natural Sciences, Social Issues, Sustainability
Danny Hillis:
Progress on the 10,000-year Clock
02004
Entrepreneurship, History, Personal Technology
Phillip Longman:
The Depopulation Problem
02004
Issues Social
Jill Tarter:
The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence: Necessarily a Long-term Strategy
02004
Issues Social
Bruce Sterling:
The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole
02004
Computing, Social Issues
David Rumsey:
Mapping Time
02004
Arts History
Daniel Janzen:
Third World Conservation: It's ALL Gardening
02004
Environment, Social Issues, Sustainability
Rusty Schweickart:
The Asteroid Threat Over the Next 100,000 Years
02004
Religion, Social Issues
James Dewar:
Long-term Policy Analysis
02004
Issues Social
George Dyson:
There's Plenty of Room at the Top: Long-term Thinking About Large-scale Computing
02004
Computing Entrepreneurship History
Peter Schwartz:
The Art Of The Really Long View
02003
History, Social Issues
Brian Eno:
The Long Now
02003
Arts, History, Social Issues
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