The Catholic Church has been undergoing a long, slow shift, playing out on the timescale of centuries: a shift to distance ...

Monica L. Smith is an archaeologist whose principal research interests are the human interaction with material culture, urbanism as a long-term human phenomenon, and the development of social ...

Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan is a Professor in the Departments of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University. Her latest book is Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos. No ...

Frank Ostaseski is a Buddhist teacher, lecturer, and author focusing on contemplative end-of-life care. His book is The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully. It’s a ...

Below is an essay by a founding board member Stewart Brand on the need for, and the mechanism by which, The Long Now Foundation is attempting to encourage long-term thinking. Civilization is revving ...

is a nonprofit established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking. It is still being assembled deep inside a mountain in west Texas. The Clock provides a rare invitation to think and engineer at the ...

One day when I was having lunch with Richard Feynman, I mentioned to him that I was planning to start a company to build a parallel computer with a million processors. His reaction was unequivocal, ...

Peter Leyden has spent his entire career figuring out the future, explaining what’s probably coming next, and helping envision how we could create a better world. He worked at the early Wired magazine ...

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, journalist James Nestor questions the conventional wisdom ...

See our blog for updates on tickets and other media; tickets will go on sale one month before the Seminar. One reason lots of people don’t want to think long term these days is because technology ...

Raoul Adamchak, who teaches organic farming at UC Davis, is a former president of the Board of California Certified Organic Farmers and was a partner in a commercial organic farm called Full Belly. He ...