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Our lecture series at The Interval in San Francisco features a diverse range of artists, scientists, historians, and others discussing long-term topics in an intimate setting.

Long Now Foundation

1:10:41

Gods and Robots: Ancient Dreams of Technology | Adrienne Mayor

Long Now Foundation

54:06

The Secret Life of Lightning: The Science of Giant Tesla Coils | Greg Leyh

Long Now Foundation

1:16:01

Climate Change and the Future of Cities | Eric Klinenberg

Long Now Foundation

56:21

Humanity and the Deep Ocean | James Nestor

Long Now Foundation

1:16:46

Edward Slingerland | Drinking for 10,000 Years: Intoxication and Civilization

Long Now Foundation

1:03:08

Fall, or Dodge in Hell | Neal Stephenson

Long Now Foundation

55:18

How to Invent Everything | Ryan North

Long Now Foundation

1:11:36

We're in the Wrong Timeline | Annalee Newitz

Long Now Foundation

1:34:01

Learning From Le Guin | Kim Stanley Robinson

Long Now Foundation

1:11:07

ORIGINS - How Earth’s History Shaped Human History | Lewis Dartnell

Long Now Foundation

1:02:52

The Changing Reading Brain in a Digital Culture | Maryanne Wolf

Long Now Foundation

52:32

Drinking for 10,000 Years: Intoxication and Civilization | Edward Slingerland

Long Now Foundation

1:02:54

How Climate Will Evolve Government and Society | Kim Stanley Robinson

Long Now Foundation

57:27

The Next Flight of the Passenger Pigeon: Engineering Nature's Engineers | Ben Novak

Long Now Foundation

1:12:41

Ryan North | How to Invent Everything

Long Now Foundation

43:46

Space Debris and The Kessler Syndrome: A Possible Future Trapped on Earth | Creon Levit

Long Now Foundation

1:29:20

The Five Ages of Burning Man | Michael Mikel

Long Now Foundation

53:53

Resisting Dystopia | Becky Chambers & Annalee Newitz

Long Now Foundation

1:11:16

Disinformation Technology: How Online Propaganda Campaigns Are Influencing Us | Renee DiResta

Long Now Foundation

1:03:36

Resisting Dystopia | Becky Chambers & Annalee Newitz

Long Now Foundation

2:03:10

How to Be Futuristic | Bruce Sterling

Long Now Foundation

58:05

Pace Layers Thinking | Stewart Brand and Paul Saffo

Long Now Foundation

1:04:33

Seveneves at The Interval | Neal Stephenson

Long Now Foundation

1:00:48

The Web In An Eye Blink | Jason Scott

Long Now Foundation

1:12:50

Creon Levit | Space Debris and The Kessler Syndrome: A Possible Future Trapped on Earth

Long Now Foundation

1:01:50

Sometimes Brilliant | Larry Brilliant (in Conversation with Stewart Brand)

Long Now Foundation

57:45

Technology & Counterculture from World War II to Today | Fred Turner

Long Now Foundation

1:06:10

Engram Preservation: Early Work Towards Mind Uploading | Robert McIntyre

Long Now Foundation

59:35

The Inevitable | Kevin Kelly

Long Now Foundation

1:03:36

Adapting to Sea Level Rise: The Science of "New York 2140" | Kim Stanley Robinson

Long Now Foundation

59:06

Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War | Richard Rhodes

Long Now Foundation

1:04:00

The Spirit Singularity: Science and the Afterlife at the Turn of the 20th Century | Hannu Rajaniemi

Long Now Foundation

1:03:01

Abby Smith Rumsey | Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures

Long Now Foundation

1:18:46

Ismail Ali | Psychedelics: History at the Crossroads

Long Now Foundation

49:35

Psychedelics: History at the Crossroads | Ismail Ali

Long Now Foundation

1:04:00

The History & Science of a Persistent Malady | Scurvy Salon

Long Now Foundation

53:52

The Library That Lasts | Hugh Howey

Long Now Foundation

1:15:05

San Francisco Time: The Photography of Fred Lyon | Fred Lyon

Long Now Foundation

46:56

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. | Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland

Long Now Foundation

1:16:36

The Loop: Decision Technology and How to Resist It | Jacob Ward

Long Now Foundation

1:14:19

Horological Heritage: Generating bird song, magic, and music through mechanism | Brittany Cox

Long Now Foundation

56:27

Rumsey Map Collection preview event | David Rumsey

Long Now Foundation

1:06:36

Alicia Escott and Heidi Quante | The Bureau of Linguistical Reality Performance Lecture

Long Now Foundation

58:36

Modern Brain Parasites as Clues to Ancient Illness | Patrick House

Long Now Foundation

1:07:21

Time Poverty Amidst Digital Abundance | Judy Wajcman

Long Now Foundation

1:08:03

Art & Science of Deep Time: Conceiving the Inconceivable in the 19th Century | Caroline Winterer

Long Now Foundation

1:06:02

How We Became “Unprepared”: Imagining Catastrophe from the Cold War to Bird Flu | Andrew Lakoff

Long Now Foundation

57:10

Envisioning Deep Time | Jonathon Keats

Long Now Foundation

1:08:00

What’s The Future? It’s Up to Us. | Tim O'Reilly

Long Now Foundation

1:00:39

Bay Area Telecommunications Infrastructure History | Rick Prelinger

Long Now Foundation

57:42

21st Century Iron Age | James Austin

Long Now Foundation

1:17:05

The Science of Climate Fiction: Can Stories Lead to Social Action? | James Holland Jones

Long Now Foundation

58:08

The Psychology of Surveillance | Tara Behrend

Long Now Foundation

1:05:10

Breaking the Close: Burglary and the Limits of Architecture | Geoff Manaugh

Long Now Foundation

1:01:00

Ideology in our Genes: The Biological Basis for Political Traits I Rose McDermott

Long Now Foundation

1:02:33

How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future | Abby Smith Rumsey

Long Now Foundation

1:00:18

Proof: The Science of Booze | Adam Rogers

Long Now Foundation

1:05:37

Can Nationalism be a Resource for Democracy? | Maya Tudor

Long Now Foundation

3:07

Real Life has no Protagonists | Becky Chambers & Annalee Newitz

Long Now Foundation

1:01:23

The New Deal You Don't Know | Louis Hyman

Long Now Foundation

1:10:20

Exploring the Artificial Cryosphere | Nicola Twilley

Long Now Foundation

59:58

Painting the Endangered World | Isabella Kirkland

Long Now Foundation

57:13

Coding Ourselves/Coding Others | D. Fox Harrell

Long Now Foundation

1:04:15

Charting the High Frontier of Space | Ed Lu

Long Now Foundation

58:16

Transforming Perception, One Sense at a Time | Kara Platoni

Long Now Foundation

1:11:30

Science Needs Fiction | Annalee Newitz

Long Now Foundation

1:04:22

Can Democracy Survive the Internet? | Nathaniel Persily

Long Now Foundation

1:13:19

Terra Incognita: Exploring the Earth's Most Remote Places | Christopher Michel

Long Now Foundation

1:09:05

A Case for Hope in the Anthropocene | Andrew Chignell

Long Now Foundation

1:13:55

The Shape Of Data And Things To Come | Gurjeet Singh

Long Now Foundation

1:03:36

Growing Up Ape: The Long-term Science of Studying Our Closest Living Relatives I Elizabeth Lonsdorf

Long Now Foundation

1:04:05

Art Thinking + Technology: A Personal Journey of Expanding Space and Time | Scott Kildall

Long Now Foundation

1:09:16

The Organized Pursuit of Knowledge | Margaret Levi

Long Now Foundation

58:17

The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots | John Markoff

Long Now Foundation

1:11:52

Journalism in an Age of Misinformation and Centralization | Dan Gillmor

Long Now Foundation

1:10:11

Our Future in Algorithm Farming | Mike Kuniavsky

Long Now Foundation

57:09

Talking with Robots about Architecture | Jeffrey McGrew

Long Now Foundation

1:02:10

Why Freedom of Speech Is More Than Speech: Expressions in Media and Code | Jennifer Petersen

Long Now Foundation

1:05:35

The Geological Reveal: How the Rock Record Shows Our Relationship to the Natural World | Miles Traer

Long Now Foundation

58:36

The Cocktail Crystal Ball | Paul Clarke

Long Now Foundation

1:10:25

A Foundation of Trust: Building a Blockchain Future | Brian Behlendorf

Long Now Foundation

1:10:35

The Evolving Science of Behavior Change | Christopher Bryan

Long Now Foundation

1:26:04

Is Reflecting Sunlight from the Atmosphere a Bridge to the Future? | Kelly Wanser

Long Now Foundation

1:14:32

The Short Now: What Addiction, Day Trading, and Most of Society’s Ills Have in Common | Esther Dyson

Long Now Foundation

1:07:32

Facts, Feelings and Stories: How to Motivate Action on Climate Change | Shahzeen Attari

Long Now Foundation

1:19:03

Thinking Long-term About the Evolving Global Challenge | The Refugee Reality