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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 30/09/2026

How do we co-create a future with tech that actually serves humanity and the planet? On Oct 22, join @baratunde.com and @blaiseaguera.bsky.social for "On Interdependence": a 10,000-year look at civic action, Indigenous wisdom, and human survival. Tickets: longnow.org/talks/02026-...

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 22/09/2026

Look overhead at The Interval and instead of a chandelier, you'll see our twinkling Bottle Keep. It follows the Japanese tradition of keeping a personal bottle at the bar for your next visit. We love that leaving a bottle behind is like a small bet, a wager that you’ll return soon.

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 22/09/2026

Some of the longest-lived institutions have a surprising thing in common: they serve drinks. Weihenstephan has been brewing beer in Bavaria since 01040. Sudo Honke has been making sake in Japan since 01141. This is, in large part, why we made Long Now headquarters into a bar.

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 18/09/2026

Did you know you can watch "How Buildings Learn," the classic six-part BBC series (01997) completely free on YouTube? Scored by Brian Eno and based on Stewart Brand’s book, it's essential for any fan of architecture and Long Now lore. Find all the episodes here: www.youtube.com/@consarch775...

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 10/09/2026

Don't miss an evening exploring art & science of bristlecones: Long Now Research Fellow Anne Heggli presents her decade of scientific findings. Plus, a screening of our award-winning documentary. In-person tickets are sold out, but join us on the livestream: longnow.org/talks/02026-...

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 31/08/2026

“The Speed of the Earth” has returned to Black Rock City. Originally created in 02024, this art piece by Long Now Board members @kevinkelly.bsky.social and David Rumsey uses a mile-long line of solar-powered LED strobes to create a streak of light that moves at the speed of the Earth's rotation.

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 24/08/2026

Registration is open for the 02026 Protocol Symposium, happening Sep 21–25. 50+ talks and 5 workshops covering topics from onchain robotics to protocol art. Space for the main event is capped at 100, so register early: protocol-institute.org/events/proto...

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 03/08/2026

Star Axis is complete. 50 years in the making, land artist Charles Ross has finished his monumental observatory in New Mexico. An open lens tracks Polaris and the 26,000-year cycle of Earth's precession. Read the beautiful feature in the NYT -> www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/a...

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 14/07/2026

POV you have one drink at The Interval

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 13/07/2026

Historians have used AI to restore lost verses of Gilgamesh, decipher carbonized papyrus scrolls, and fill in gaps in 2,000-year-old Greek inscriptions. @taras-grescoe.com reports on progress in ancient language decipherment, and which codes AI can’t crack (yet): longnow.org/ideas/the-co...

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 26/06/2026

Our long-time friend, Brewster Kahle, founder of the @archive.org, was named a 02026 Computer History Museum Fellow, honoring his pioneering work in digital preservation and open access to knowledge. So deserved. Congratulations, Brewster. computerhistory.org/2026-fellow-...

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 22/06/2026

And there are many permanent installations to explore any time ->

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 22/06/2026

How to experience Andy Goldsworthy's deep-time art and ephemeral works across San Francisco this summer ->

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 11/06/2026

The exceptional exhibit 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘰𝘯 at @nevadaart.bsky.social is featured in the New York Times today! The article features many of the incredible artists, including our partnership with Jonathon Keats on the monumental Centuries of the Bristlecone clock -> www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/a...

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 05/06/2026

What an incredible season of Long Now Talks! We heard from @ninamiolane.bsky.social on the geometry of consciousness, @ericries.bsky.social on incorruptibility, @bayoakomolafe.bsky.social on new time paradigms, @indyjohar.bsky.social on planetary consciousness + more

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 03/06/2026

We're an official selection at CineGlobe Film Festival in Geneva, Switzerland! 𝘌𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦, our making-of documentary about the Centuries of the Bristlecone art installation, will be premiering at CERN this weekend. We are so thrilled and honored.

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 29/05/2026

Deadline is one week away! Submit your concepts for the first cohort of Long Now Labs —from reimagining deep time to new methods for discerning truth, we want to hear from you. Submissions close on June 5. Apply here: longnow.org/labs/001/

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 28/05/2026

A molecule too complex to have formed by chance could be a signature of life. This is the assembly theory framework, which could reshape how we search for life beyond Earth. Researchers @leecronin.bsky.social and @saraimari.bsky.social explain on Long Now Ideas: longnow.org/ideas/physic...

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 27/05/2026

Could there be a universal geometry of intelligence? @ninamiolane.bsky.social proposes answers in her Long Now Talk with @berggruen.org's Claire Isabel Webb.

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 26/05/2026

Or listen on any podcast app: na2.hubs.ly/H05Lpr_0 This Talk was presented in collaboration with @ayinpress.bsky.social, publisher of Akomolafe’s new book Selah, available here: ayinpress.org/selah-a-bayo...

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 22/05/2026

[Open call] Long Now Labs is looking for new concepts for marking, experiencing, or making sense of time. Submissions will be reviewed by our incredible panel of artists, philosophers, and technologists.

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 20/05/2026

Or listen on any podcast app: pod.link/186908455/ep...

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 19/05/2026

For 30 years, Long Now videos, articles, and podcasts have been freely accessible, never paywalled. Long-term thinking and community building is for everyone, and we’re so glad you’re here. You can explore decades of archives on our website (longnow.org) and YouTube (www.youtube.com/longnow)

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 29/04/2026

What does long-term thinking look like in practice? Introducing Long Now Labs, a collaborative space to test, prototype, and build long-term tools. If you're a designer, researcher, or technologist interested in the deep future, we want to hear from you. Submissions are open: longnow.org/labs/001/

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 24/04/2026

Thank you to everyone who attended our Long Now Talk at The Interval with mathematician and machine learning researcher @ninamiolane.bsky.social and science historian Claire Isabel Webb of @berggruen.org. They explored the question of consciousness from an unexpected direction: geometry.

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 22/04/2026

So far the library includes works from Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Sjón, Elif Shafak, Han Kang, Karl Ove Knausgård and more. More about the project here: www.futurelibrary.no

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 22/04/2026

Artist and Long Now council member Katie Paterson has spent the last decade building the Future Library in Oslo, Norway. Over the next 100 years one writer every year will contribute a text. A forest was planted to supply paper for the books when they’re ready to publish in 02114.

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 22/04/2026

For Earth Day 02026, we're thinking about 02114. That's the year Katie Paterson's @futurelibrary.bsky.social will finally open: a library for readers who haven’t been born yet.

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 21/04/2026

Happy hours are back! This year we're hosting regular gatherings at The Interval, our San Francisco headquarters, with fascinating guest hosts and world-class cocktails. Mon Apr 27 come meet artist Isabella Kirkland. Limited spots available, reserve your spot here: longnow.org/rsvp/02026-k...

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 03/04/2026

The artwork, created by Jonathon Keats, has 2 components: a land art installation among the world's oldest trees, and a giant arboreal clock built in collaboration with clockmakers @mitakulu.bsky.social and @nicocurio.bsky.social Learn more about the project here: longnow.org/centuries/

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 20/03/2026

This piece of music is playing continuously without repetition until the year 03000. In 02000, composer Jem Finer created Longplayer, a 1,000-year composition generated by an algorithm and performed on a set of singing bowls. The piece is evolving slowly over a millennium-long performance.

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 20/02/2026

The effect will be to synchronize human actions with the activity of other lifeforms such as sequoias, oaks, bristlecone pines — and soon, glaciers. The goal is nothing less than a revolution in global logistics and planning: to reintegrate Homo sapiens into the environment as a whole.

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 20/02/2026

Prototyped at Long Now’s Nevada Bristlecone Preserve and the Nevada Museum of Art, Keats’s alternative timekeeping system includes a monumental arboreal clock, arboreal land calendar, and the world’s first arboreal bond brokerage firm.

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 20/02/2026

Coordinated universal time is OUT. No more atomic clocks. No more cesium fountain. Instead, we’re calibrating our lives to the trees. Welcome to Bristlecone Time. Artist/philosopher Jonathon Keats unveils a horological and land art project offering an alternative time standard calibrated by trees.

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 17/02/2026

Such a beautiful book from our upcoming speaker, Stefan Sagmeister! Read an excerpt here: longnow.org/ideas/its-ge... Don't miss his upcoming Long Now Talk, happening today (Tues Feb 17). In-person tickets are sold out, but join us on the livestream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXVf...

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 30/01/2026

Pace layers is a framework for long-term thinking, yes, but it’s also a way to better understand your agency in a fast-moving world. ➡️

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 14/01/2026

In this essay by Gus Mitchell, take a deep dive into planetary consciousness, bioregionalism, and what it means to really belong to a place like Earth. longnow.org/ideas/bioreg...

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 14/01/2026

In the 01970s environmental activist Peter Berg said the phrase “one world” was a “bullshit transnational fuckup” that put us on a path to abstraction and lack of accountability. Instead, we needed planetary framing. But why is the phrase “one planet” or “whole Earth” so transformative?

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 09/01/2026

[Upcoming Talk] @indyjohar.bsky.social says in order to survive the long now we must value adaptation over control. We can do this by shifting away from "closed projects" with finite ends, to "open gardens" where success is measured by the system's ability to evolve.

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 19/12/2025

With an incredible season of Talks, book launches, and events coming in 02026, now is the time to join us → longnow.org/join

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 19/12/2025

The Long Now community is really something special. A group of people who are interdisciplinary and intergenerational. You feel this at Long Now events: a sense of togetherness that pushes back against polycrisis and short-term thinking. It feels curious, imaginative, and hopeful.

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 18/12/2025

Thank you to all the Long Now members and donors that made this programming possible. If you’re not a member, join our community here -> longnow.org/join 02026 has even more in store.

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 18/12/2025

Launched Long Now’s living library of over two decades of civilization-scale thinking at longnow.org. The new site makes it easier than ever to navigate the Talks archive, featuring more than 400 leading thinkers, and our ongoing projects -> longnow.org/projects/

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 18/12/2025

Unveiled 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘦, a monumental arboreal clock and land-art installation by Jonathon Keats commissioned by the Nevada Museum of Art -> longnow.org/centuries/

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 18/12/2025

Welcomed three new board members, Board Chair Mick Costigan, Joe Speicher, and Lisa Kay Solomon -> longnow.org/people/board/

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 18/12/2025

Launched our inaugural cohort of The Council at Long Now, ambassadors for long-term thinking and responsibility -> longnow.org/people/counc...

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 18/12/2025

Highlights from the year: Hosted 11 extraordinary Talks, featuring @kalladomcdowell.bsky.social, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, @saraimari.bsky.social, Kim Carson, @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, and @katecrawford.bsky.social See all episodes here: youtube.com/longnow

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 18/12/2025

Wow, what a year at Long Now! 11 Long Now Talks 262-page print journal 25 new Council members 3 new Board members 1 monumental arboreal clock 400+ talks and essays added to our living archive

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 12/12/2025

Can we grasp this sense of ourselves as existing in time, part of the beautiful continuum of life? Can we become inspired by the prospect of contributing to the future? Questions asked by Long Now cofounder Brian Eno in the essay "The Big Here and Long Now" -> longnow.org/ideas/the-bi...

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