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

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

It has been over 25 years since a handful of pragmatic idealists with a penchant for audaciousness started The Long Now Foundation. It was 10 years before the iPhone. Two years before Google. The ...

Philip Tetlock is author of Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction and Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?. He is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jesse Schell is a professor at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, CEO of Schell Games, and author of The Art of Game Design. Formerly he was chair of the International Gems Developers ...

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 ...