It’s the combination of fast and slow that makes the whole system resilient. Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow ...

The inaugural issue of Long Now’s new annual print journal synthesizes the most important learnings of our first ...

Stephen Heintz is an American nonprofit executive and public policy expert. Since 02001, he has served as president of the ...

Stephen Heintz is an American nonprofit executive and public policy expert. Since 02001, he has served as president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF), a family foundation with an endowment of ...

But the economy is better thought of as an emergent phenomenon based on our adopted stories and the values they contain, and ...

Sara Imari Walker leads one of the largest international theory groups in origins of life and astrobiology. Walker and her team's key areas of research are in developing new approaches to the problem ...

The Long Now Foundation presented the North American Premiere of Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings for 3 days at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Friday and Saturday evening were ...

Anthropologist/ecologist Stephen Lansing tells a gorgeous tale of how spiritual practices in Bali have finessed over 1,000 years the most nuanced and productive agricultural system in the world.

The full scale 10,000 Year Clock is now under construction. While there is no completion date scheduled, we do plan to open it to the public once it is ready. The essay below by Long Now board member ...